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Aged 100, Australian dancer still hears call of the stage
Starring in music videos at the age of 100, Eileen Kramer is probably the oldest working dancer and choreographer in Australia.
11 May 2015
Michelle Obama 'knocked back' by race perceptions
Michelle Obama says she had to fight misperceptions due to her African-American race during the 2008 White House campaign.
11 May 2015
Jimmy Carter cuts Guyana trip short after falling ill
Former US President Jimmy Carter cancelled plans to observe general elections in the South American country of Guyana after falling ill.
11 May 2015
Putin defends notorious Nazi-Soviet pact
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday defended the infamous pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
11 May 2015
Selfie-hating Deneuve says real stars are 'discreet'
Selfies and social media have been the death of film stars, iconic French actress Catherine Deneuve said in an interview published Sunday.
11 May 2015
Black boxes of crashed A400M plane found, aircraft grounded
Spanish authorities found the two cockpit recorders of the Airbus A400M military plane that crashed near Seville airport, killing four people.
11 May 2015
Queen Elizabeth marks WWII anniversary at London service
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attended a thanksgiving service at London's Westminster Abbey on the final day of commemorations.
11 May 2015
US security chief warns of 'new phase' in terror threat
The global terrorist threat has entered a "new phase," where media-savvy Islamist extremists are successfully drawing lone wolf attackers to their cause.
11 May 2015
Castro at Vatican thanks pope for mediating thaw with US
Cuban President Raul Castro met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, thanking the pontiff for his role in brokering an historic rapprochement between Havana and Washington.
11 May 2015
Attempts to distort history of World War II are unacceptable: Nazarbayev
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev criticized attempts of certain politicians and countries to rewrite the history of the World War II and emphasized the necessity to preserve the truth about those years.
11 May 2015
Nazarbayev congratulates Conservatives leader David Cameron on his party's election victory
Nursultan Nazarbayev has sent a telegram to the leader of the Conservatives Party David Cameron congratulating him on the win of his party in the UK parliamentary elections.
11 May 2015
Golovkin stalks his prey to execute: Bernard Hopkins on upcoming fight against Monroe
Bernard Hopkins has talked about the upcoming Golovkin-Monroe fight with Jim Lampley at The Fight Game.
11 May 2015
Zhanat Zhakiyanov wins WBA International title
Kazakhstani boxer Zhanat Zhakyanov won the vacant WBA Interntioanl title in the bantamweight.
11 May 2015
Nurlan Tursynov of Kazakhstan wins silver at Asian Wrestling Championship
Kazakhstani Greco-Roman wrestler Nursultan Tursynov has become a silver medalist of the Asian Wrestling Championships in Qatar.
11 May 2015
Nazarbayev meets with UN Secretary General and leaders of seven countries in Moscow
Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, has met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the leaders of Azerbaijan, Cuba, Czech Republic, Mongolia, Serbia, South Africa, Venezuela during his official two-day visit to Moscow, Russia.
11 May 2015
Yaroslava Shevedova of Kazakhstan wins Mutua Madrid Open
Kazakhstani tennis Yaroslava Shvedova won Women’s Doubles with Australian Casey Dellacqua at the 2015 Mutua Madrid Open.
10 May 2015
Kazakhstan celebrates 70th anniversary of Victory
Today Kazakhstan celebrates one of the most important holidays – the Victory Day, which commemorates the end of the Great Patriotic War, as the WWII is known in the former Soviet states, and the win of the Soviet Union over the Nazi Germany.
10 May 2015
Together we will overcome everything: Nazarbayev tells Putin
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has had a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
10 May 2015
American billionaire Jim Rogers advises to invest in emerging markets like Kazakhstan
A famous American investor and businessman Jim Rogers advised to invest in the emerging markets like Iran, Kazakhstan, North Korea and a number of African countries.
09 May 2015
Kazakhstan allocates additional €1 million for Chernobyl Shelter Fund
Kazakhstan will allocate €1 million for the construction of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) intended to contain the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine.
08 May 2015