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Dinosaur 'thief' arrested in Florida
A US man accused of smuggling 70 million year old dinosaur skeletons into the United States, including a toothy relative of the bigger Tyrannosaurus rex, was arrested on Wednesday in Florida.
19 October 2012
The only Kazakhstan’s building-construction plant to be erected in Kostanay
The contract was signed on October 11 between Kostanay Akim (Mayor), management of Kostanay MBI and partners from Germany.
19 October 2012
Kazakhstan National Bank released eagle-owl coin with diamond
The National Bank of Kazakhstan has released commemorative Eagle-Owl and Panther coins.
19 October 2012
Over 210 thousand crimes registered in 9 months of 2012 in Kazakhstan
An increase was registered in such crimes as theft, fraud, robbery and hooliganism: Kazakhstan General Prosecutor’s office.
19 October 2012
Canadians 'bullying the bullies' in teenager girl's suicide
A backlash over alleged cyberbullying that pushed a Canadian girl to suicide has cost a man his job, and is hampering a federal police investigation.
19 October 2012
In signal to Iran, US and Israeli forces to stage drill
The United States and Israel are set to launch a major military exercise in a show of unity aimed at Iran, despite friction between American and Israeli leaders over how to counter Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
19 October 2012
Kazakhstan can eliminate three-shift education only in 2016
Meanwhile, in relation to the migration processes and demographic growth, the number of 3-shift schools remains high: Finance Minister.
19 October 2012
Obesity surgery is good for the heart: research
Bariatric surgery to help the obese shed weight also reduces risks of cardiovascular disease, according to a review published on Wednesday in the specialist journal Heart.
19 October 2012
China flexes muscles with drills amid island row
China was set to dispatch naval vessels and aircraft to the East China Sea on Friday, flexing its muscles in exercises likely to further stoke a bristling territorial dispute with Japan.
19 October 2012
Political standoff has US on path to 'fiscal cliff'
As the US candidates battle it out in the final weeks of the campaign another showdown looms, with the world's largest economy coasting towards a potentially disastrous "fiscal cliff."
19 October 2012
Colombian government and FARC kick off Oslo peace talks
Colombian government representatives and leftist rebels FARC kick off their first peace negotiations in a decade in Norway on Thursday in a bid to end almost 50 years of bloodshed.
19 October 2012
Ex-rebels attack Libya's Bani Walid, 11 killed: local sources
At least eleven Libyans were killed and scores wounded in clashes on Wednesday when ex-rebels linked to the army attacked Bani Walid, a former bastion of dictator Moamer Kadhafi.
19 October 2012
Beethoven score sells for 252,750 euros in Paris
An unpublished Beethoven manuscript sold for 252,750 euros ($331,000) at auction in Paris, part of a major collection put together over 50 years by the late French-born banker Andre Meyer.
19 October 2012
North Mali residents say Islamists increasingly brutal
The Islamists who have seized control of Mali's desert north are growing increasingly brutal as they impose sharia on the region, even as they violate the strict Muslim law themselves, say fleeing residents.
19 October 2012
Astana to get 10 parking lots for 5 thousand cars
The plan is to build 10 parking lots with the total capacity of 4,950 cars to provide a new administrative center of the capital with parking spots: administration.
19 October 2012
Kadhafi hometown bristles over price it has paid
Thousands of buildings with collapsed walls and missing storeys still beg for reconstruction in the Libyan city of Sirte, where Moamer Kadhafi made his last stand a year ago.
19 October 2012
US army contractor in hot water over Afghan video
A private security company working for the US government in Afghanistan is in hot water after a video surfaced allegedly showing several of its employees drunk and on drugs.
19 October 2012
CSTO military training completed near Almaty
Collective peace-making training of CSTO member-states called Infrangible Brotherhood-2012 has been completed near Almaty.
18 October 2012
$10 million spent on procurement of new buses in Astana
83 new buses worth 1.5 billion tenge ($10 million) have been bought starting from the beginning of 2012: official.
18 October 2012
Nazarbayev signed law on mutual protection of investments with Austria
Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed a law on ratification of the Agreement between the governments of Kazakhstan and Austria on promotion and mutual protection of investments.
18 October 2012
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