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Planes, ships deployed to investigate Chinese signal
Planes and ships were being diverted Sunday to the area where a Chinese vessel detected signals consistent with a black box beacon in the hunt for missing flight MH370, the search chief said.
06 April 2014
Russia probes cheese factory after workers photographed bathing in milk
Russia on Friday launched a criminal investigation into breaches of hygiene at a cheese factory after footage of bare-chested workers bathing in vats of milk went viral on the Internet.
04 April 2014
China toddler started fire which killed 12: Xinhua
Investigators in China have accused a three-year-old girl of playing with a cigarette lighter and starting a workshop fire which killed 12 people, state media reported.
03 April 2014
Undersea volcanoes, huge seas complicate MH370 search
Searchers racing to find flight MH370's "black box" face daunting hurdles ranging from undersea volcanoes to mountainous seas as they operate in one of Earth's most remote locations.
26 March 2014
Six dead, one missing in S. Korea fishing boat fire
Six people died after jumping off a fishing boat that caught fire off a South Korean island on Monday, with efforts underway to rescue its missing captain, the coastguard said.
24 March 2014
Rakhat Aliyev left Malta in summer 2013: police
Rakhat Aliyev left Malta back in summer 2013.
21 March 2014
Millions join satellite search for missing plane
Three million people have joined an effort led by a satellite operator to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, in what may be the largest crowdsourcing project of its kind.
18 March 2014
Investigation is over: MI-8 chopper crash in Almaty Oblast
Investigation of the MI-823 helicopter crash in Almaty Oblast has been completed.
16 March 2014
Herbalife faces FTC inquiry after activist campaign
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened a civil investigation into Herbalife.
13 March 2014
Malaysia searching Andaman Sea for missing plane: official `
The international search for a missing Malaysian airliner has been expanded into the Andaman Sea, hundreds of kilometres (miles) to the northwest of the original search radius.
12 March 2014
Boeing joining Malaysia crash investigation
Boeing said Monday it has joined an official US team investigating the still-mysterious disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines 777 aircraft, feared to have plunged into the Gulf of Thailand.
11 March 2014
Three more people escape from slavery in Kazakhstan
The story of a Karaganda resident Vladimir Galkin, who told that he was kept in slavery for about 12 year on a remote farm, has got a continuation.
10 March 2014
Malaysia expects 'jet oil slick' analysis Monday
Malaysian authorities expect to complete by Monday afternoon a lab analysis that could indicate whether an oil slick at sea came from a missing passenger jet, an official said.
10 March 2014
Man charged with spreading rumours of banks' insolvency holds overdue loan from Kaspi Bank
Darkhan Sabdenov, who was charged with distributing misleading information about insolvency of three Kazakhstan banks, had failed to repay his loan to Kaspi Bank.
09 March 2014
Almaty flea market fire case hits court
Hearings of the criminal case over Almaty flea market fire started on February 25.
27 February 2014
U.S. State Department and FBI classify investigation into case involving 16 Kazakhstanis
The U.S. State Department and FBI has classified the investigation into the case involving 16 Kazakhstan nationals accused of major fraud in the United States.
27 February 2014
Hong Kong freezes assets of Ablyazov's affiliates
Hong Kong Court has ruled to freeze assets of companies that are believes to be owned by the fugitive ex-head Kazakhstan banker Mukhtar Ablyazov.
26 February 2014
Overworked nurses linked to higher death rates
Investigations in nine European countries have given statistical backing to claims that patients' lives may be at risk when nurses are overworked.
26 February 2014
Bank and law firm employees suspected of sparking anti-bank campaign
A lawyer of one of the banks and employees of an Almaty-based law firm may be among those who started the anti-bank SMS-campaign.
25 February 2014
Police reject Breivik prison 'torture' complaint
Police in Norway said Monday they closed a preliminary investigation into a complaint by mass murderer Anders Breivik that his prison conditions amounted to "serious torture".
25 February 2014