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Kazakhstan is planning to set salary ceilings industry-wise.

• 04 декабря 2013, 17:30

A US woman thought to be the first person to get a traffic ticket for wearing Google Glass pleaded not guilty in court Tuesday, her lawyer said.

• 04 декабря 2013, 11:03

France will authorise the deployment of armed guards on ships as part of anti-piracy measures, a move long sought by shipping companies, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in an interview published Tuesday.

• 04 декабря 2013, 10:00

French lawmakers on Saturday adopted a highly controversial provision in a bill that punishes clients of prostitutes amid fierce argument that the new measure will be counterproductive.

• 30 ноября 2013, 13:35

Spanish courts are releasing serial rapists and killers under a European human rights ruling, terrifying their victims as authorities warn the convicts risk reoffending.

• 30 ноября 2013, 12:28

Eleven years after making euthanasia legal for adults, Belgium came a step closer to extending mercy-killing to terminally-ill children Wednesday after an intense public debate on the ethical issues at stake.

• 29 ноября 2013, 13:58

The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia said a ban on women driving in the conservative Gulf state protects society from "evil".

• 29 ноября 2013, 13:35

Cutting of 7 or more conifer trees in Kazakhstan is a criminal offense in Kazakhstan.

• 28 ноября 2013, 20:13

After six years together, Hana and Iva both decided they had met "the one" -- but the Croatian couple's dream of getting married and having children risks being derailed by a referendum to outlaw same-sex marriage.

• 28 ноября 2013, 14:39

Kazakhstan is introducing a new holiday -- the Labor Day.

• 27 ноября 2013, 18:48

Pro-Western Ukrainians on Sunday held the biggest protest rally in Kiev since the 2004 Orange Revolution, urging the government to sign a historic pact with the European Union and clashing with police.

• 26 ноября 2013, 10:01

The complaints started getting loud almost immediately after US regulators said they were considering allowing cell phone use on airplanes.

• 23 ноября 2013, 12:10

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro exercised new emergency powers for the first time Thursday, signing decrees limiting business profit margins and tightening regulation of imports.

• 22 ноября 2013, 15:09

A New York City law banning cigarette sales to people under 21 was signed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday, the latest move in the Big Apple's war on smoking.

• 20 ноября 2013, 17:00

The US Supreme Court Tuesday refused to block a law that restricts women's access to abortions in the southern state of Texas.

• 20 ноября 2013, 11:24

Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday was set to debate a bill to let jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko go abroad for treatment in a last-ditch attempt to save a crucial deal with the European Union.

• 19 ноября 2013, 17:48

President Barack Obama delved into his grass-roots organizing past Monday, appealing to his most faithful supporters to help him out of the political maelstrom over the botched rollout of his health care law.

• 19 ноября 2013, 11:44

Nearly 17,000 people have been punished for flouting the Chinese Communist Party's "frugality" guidelines, state media said Monday, in the latest sign of efforts to clamp down on corruption.

• 18 ноября 2013, 17:25

China's Communist Party leaders this week emerged from a closed-door meeting in Beijing bearing a raft of promises on issues from the controversial one-child policy to the scope of the death penalty.

• 17 ноября 2013, 17:24

Unwelcome spectres are coming back to haunt Czech billionaire Andrej Babis, who emerged as a power broker in recent elections but is facing allegations he collaborated with the communist-era secret police.

• 16 ноября 2013, 18:17