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Woman charged with attempted murder following London terror raids
London police on Wednesday charged a woman with attempted murder following terror raids on three properties that also led to the arrest of the teenage son of a senior British diplomat.
30 January 2014
Academy kills Oscars nomination over email gaffe
Oscars organizers have withdrawn a best song nomination from a composer in a rare move because he emailed voting members to highlight his candidacy, which is strictly banned for Academy executives.
30 January 2014
Google sheds Motorola in $2.91 bn deal with Lenovo
Google agreed Wednesday to sell Motorola to Chinese tech giant Lenovo for $2.91 billion, after a lackluster two-year effort to turn around the smartphone maker it bought for $12.5 billion.
30 January 2014
$130 billion a year wasted on poor quality education: UN
A quarter of a billion children worldwide are failing to learn basic reading and maths skills in an education crisis that costs governments $129 billion annually.
30 January 2014
Elena Khrustaleva wins sprint at Asian Biathlon Championship
Olympic silver winner Elena Khrustaleva from Kazakhstan has won the sprint competition at the Asian Biathlon Championship in Almaty.
29 January 2014
Kazakhstani football player transferred to Polish top division
A forward of the Kazakhstan national football team Sergey Khizhnichenko has signed up with Korona football club from Kietce, Poland.
29 January 2014
Online banking system hacked in Kazakhstan
The online banking system has been hacked in Kazakhstan. Hackers arrested.
29 January 2014
Inaction of Austrian, German and Maltese authorities against Rakhat Aliyev may damage public confidence to EU justice
Claude Turmes, a member of the European Parliament, is concerned that inaction of European authorities on mounting serious accusations against Aliyev could undermine public confidence to EU justice.
29 January 2014
Money and pride keep families apart at China New Year
As millions join the world's largest annual human migration, some in China will not return home for the Lunar New Year, fearing the rising costs of seasonal gifts and ridicule from their families.
29 January 2014
Kazakhstan eyeing Ablyazov's property
Mukhtar Ablyazov might faceconfiscation of property in Kazakhstan.
29 January 2014
Syria, spying, Iran in focus at global security meet
Global leaders from politics, defence and diplomacy meet in Germany from Friday to discuss conflict hotspots and looming threats, from Syria and Afghanistan to East Asia and Africa.
29 January 2014
Azerbaijan 'capture' Armenian spy after failed raid
Azerbaijani forces say they have captured an Armenian spy following the latest in a series of tit-for-tat raids along the volatile frontier between the two arch-foes.
29 January 2014
Venezuelan region wins Guinness record for lightning
It turns out there is a Guinness record for the place with the most lightning, and an area of Venezuela with 20,000 flashes of it per hour has won.
29 January 2014
Hollande feels backlash over Valerie dumping
French President Francois Hollande has been hit with a backlash over the manner in which he dumped former first lady Valerie Trierweiler after being caught out having a secret affair.
29 January 2014
Three H7N9 cases in same Chinese family: Xinhua
Three members of the same Chinese family have contracted H7N9 bird flu in the province worst-affected by the current spike in cases, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
29 January 2014
Kazakhstan's Harmony Lessons wins Grand-Prix at Festival Premiers Plans in Angers
Kazakhstan's film Harmony Lessons directed by Emir Baigazin has been awarded with the Grand-Prix at the Festival Premiers Plans in Angers, France.
29 January 2014
Web gets new neighborhoods with '.guru' and more
New online neighborhoods open Wednesday when a US company starts offering Web addresses ending in ".guru," ".bike" -- and even ".singles."
29 January 2014
Pregnant robot delivered to Aktobe
Medical students of Aktobe city in western Kazakhstan now have a pregnant robot to practice birth attendance.
29 January 2014
Deadly rainy season leaves 41 dead in Bolivia
Bolivia President Evo Morales declared a state of emergency on Tuesday to assist victims of the country's deadly rainy season, which has claimed 41 lives and left 20,000 people homeless according to provisional figures.
29 January 2014
Kazakhstan has no need for death penalty: criminal law expert
I believe that life-long sentence is a severe enough punishment and the restrictions it imposes on a person are tough enough to view it as a real alternative to death penalty: Kazakhstan professor of criminal law.
29 January 2014