N. Korea installs rocket on launch pad: report North Korea has installed the first stage of a long-range rocket it plans to launch this month on the launch pad, defying international calls to cancel the mission.
03 December 2012
At least 20 FARC rebels killed in Colombia: army At least 20 leftist rebels were killed in Colombia after the military launched bombing strikes against their camp in Narino province, near the border with Ecuador.
03 December 2012
S&P upgraded Samruk-Kazyna's credit ratingStandard & Poor’s has upgraded its long- and short-term local and foreign currency credit ratings of Kazakhstan's Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund.
China manufacturing hits 13-month high in November: HSBC Manufacturing activity in China hit a 13-month high in November, HSBC said Monday, in another sign that the world's second largest economy is emerging from a drawn-out slumber.
Australia set for China's Forbidden City theme park A China theme park in Australia featuring a full-size replica of gates to the Forbidden City and a nine-storey temple could rival the Sydney Opera House as a tourist drawcard.
03 December 2012
US steps up spying on Iran's nuclear reactor: report US intelligence agencies have significantly stepped up spying operations on Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor prompted by concerns about the security of weapons-grade plutonium there.
03 December 2012
S. Korea postpones rocket launch to 2013: official South Korea has postponed its third bid to put a satellite in orbit until next year, after a technical problem forced the cancellation of last week's scheduled launch.
03 December 2012
Gender identity struggle figured in Manning's detention The US military held WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning under strict "suicide watch" partly because his gender identity struggle showed he was mentally "not stable," a witness said Sunday.
03 December 2012
Car import dropped 75-fold in Kazakhstan119,809 cars were imported to Kazakhstan for personal use in 2011 and only 1,599 such cars were imported in 10 and a half months of 2012.
03 December 2012
Missing Pacific island riddle solved: researcher A New Zealand researcher Monday claimed to have solved the riddle of a mystery South Pacific island shown on Google Earth and world maps which does not exist, blaming a whaling ship from 1876.
Murdoch's British newspaper chief to leave company Rupert Murdoch's top newspaper lieutenant in Britain is to leave his post at the end of the year, it was announced Sunday, heralding the start of a major shake-up at parent company News Corporation.
03 December 2012
Russia's Putin to meet Turkey's Erdogan for Syria talks Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a landmark visit to Istanbul on Monday to discuss their differences over the crisis in Syria.
03 December 2012
Colombia gives FARC one year for peace deal President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday warned Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels they have less than a year to strike a deal under recently opened peace talks aimed at ending Latin America's longest-running insurgency.
03 December 2012
Uzbekistan claims ‘undiscovered’ Veronese masterpiece Central Asian state of Uzbekistan has with much fanfare put on display what it says is a lost masterpiece of Western art, a painting by Italian Renaissance master Paolo Veronese.
03 December 2012
Clinton visits Czech Republic amid nuclear deal hopes US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in the Czech Republic Monday for a brief visit, hoping to win a tussle with Russia and help secure a $10 billion nuclear plant contract for US giant Westinghouse.