China wants to build power plant in KazakhstanChinese Datang Corporation and China Engineering Machinery Corporation are interested in constructing a thermal power plant in Kazakhstan.
Astana Opera singers to perform La Boheme at Arena di VeronaThe lead singers of Astana Opera Medet Chotabayev and Sundet Baigozhin have signed contracts with Italian Lirico di Verona to the perform primary roles in Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme.
11 April 2014
Focus on small and medium-sized business: NazarbayevPresident Nursultan Nazarbayev has spoken about the strategic importance of small and medium-sized business in Kazakhstan at the Foreign Investors Council (FIC) meeting.
GGG named most entertaining boxerMiddleweight WBA and IBO Champion Gennady Golovkin has been named one of the most entertaining boxers.
11 April 2014
Adrian Mole author Sue Townsend dies aged 68: sonSue Townsend, the British author responsible for the multi-million selling Adrian Mole series documenting the hum-drum life of an awkward teenager, has died aged 68, her son told the BBC on Friday.
11 April 2014
German inflation hits three-year low in MarchThe rate of inflation in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, fell to its lowest level in more than three years in March, official final data showed on Friday.
11 April 2014
Drug cartel internal feud leaves 28 dead in MexicoAn internal power struggle within the once-powerful Gulf drug cartel has left 28 people dead in gunfights on Mexico's northeastern coast this week, authorities said.
11 April 2014
Italy's Berlusconi headed for community serviceItalian prosecutors on Thursday approved a request by Silvio Berlusconi's lawyers for the three-time prime minister to do community service rather than face house arrest following a tax fraud conviction.
11 April 2014
Nine Cambodians killed in Thai road accidentNine Cambodians were killed Friday when a mini-bus carrying migrant workers returning home for the Buddhist New Year crashed and burst into flames in eastern Thailand, police said.
11 April 2014
'Cherry tree from space' mystery baffles JapanA cosmic mystery is uniting monks and scientists in Japan after a cherry tree grown from a seed that orbited the Earth for eight months bloomed years earlier than expected -- and with very surprising flowers.