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Princess Anne opens Magna Carta exhibition in Washington Britain's Princess Anne opened a 10-week exhibition at the Library of Congress.

07 November 2014

Kazakh scientist finds unique Al-Farabi treatises in Europe A scientist from Kazakhstan has found a dozen of unique treatises attributed to the great thinker Abu Nasr al-Farabi.

16 October 2014

eBooks on the go: Reading Semei campaign to foster love for books Librarians of the Abai Library in Semey have decided to foster love for reading through free eBooks.

07 July 2014

No charges for Japanese in Anne Frank diary vandalism case A 36-year-old Japanese man arrested for vandalising library copies of Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" will not be charged after he was found to be mentally incompetent, a report said.

19 June 2014

Famed Sarajevo library reopens 22 years after destruction Sarajevo's famed architectural jewel, "City Hall", or the National Library, reopened on Friday, 22 years after it was destroyed by Bosnian Serb forces' shelling during the 1992-1995 war.

10 May 2014

Fire destroys only library for blind in Karaganda Fire has destroyed the only library for the blind and partially sighted in Karaganda Oblast in central Kazakhstan.

31 January 2014

Important library in north Lebanon torched A decades-old library owned by a Greek Orthodox priest in north Lebanon's majority Sunni city of Tripoli was torched late Friday, a day after a sectarian scuffle, a security source said.

05 January 2014

After 200 years, George Washington gets a library George Washington, the first president of the United States, was finally honored with a library Friday, more than 200 years after the end of his tenure.

28 September 2013