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UNESCO re-elects director general
UNESCO has voted its director general Irina Bokova to a second term in office.
05 October 2013
Prince Harry reviews global armada in Sydney
Britain's Prince Harry, in full military uniform, reviewed a global armada of warships in a day of pomp and ceremony watched by tens of thousands of people on Sydney Harbour.
05 October 2013
Miley Cyrus in tit-for-tat exchange with Sinead O'Connor
Former Disney teen idol turned bad-girl pop star Miley Cyrus hit back Thursday at Sinead O'Connor, rebuffing advice by the Irish singer that she stop prostituting herself for music business bosses.
05 October 2013
Turkish MPs extend possible troop dispatch mandate in Syria conflict
Turkey's parliament on Thursday extended for one year a mandate that would allow Ankara to send troops to war-ravaged Syria if necessary.
05 October 2013
Myanmar picks first Miss Universe hopeful in half century
With a whiff of controversy and not a bikini in sight, a US-educated business graduate was selected as the first Miss Universe contestant to represent Myanmar in more than 50 years.
05 October 2013
Japan's Aso warns of 'consequences' of US debt default
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso on Friday urged the United States to resolve political gridlock in Washington, warning of grim "consequences" for the global economy if it leads to a debt default.
05 October 2013
13 members of Anonymous indicted on US hacking charges
Thirteen alleged members of the loosely organized hacker collective known as Anonymous were indicted Thursday in connection with a series of online attacks on US companies and trade groups.
05 October 2013
A brief history of Twitter - in Tweets
Billions of messages are fired off weekly at Twitter, with some of them capturing defining moments in history or in the evolution of the San Francisco-based firm.
04 October 2013
US sanctions Rwanda over rebel use of child soldiers
The United States slapped sanctions on Rwanda on Thursday over the use of child soldiers by rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo which Kigali is accused of backing.
04 October 2013
UN atomic agency to visit Fukushima
The UN atomic agency said Friday it is sending a team from October 14-21 to review Japan's progress cleaning up areas around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.
04 October 2013
Men applying violence against women are monsters: Antonio Banderas in Almaty
The world-famous Spanish actor Antonio Banderas has visited Almaty and handed a 38 million tenge check to Ayala charity fund for the project called Breathe, Kid.
04 October 2013
Arms experts see Syria progress, on-site inspections soon
International experts preparing to destroy Syria's chemical weapons arsenal said they had made "encouraging" progress Thursday and expect to carry out on-site inspections within days.
04 October 2013
Twitter wants to fly with billion-dollar IPO
Twitter on Thursday unveiled plans to pump up the globally popular one-to-many messaging service with a $1 billion stock market debut.
04 October 2013
US police shoot woman dead after White House car chase
US police shot a female motorist dead after she led them on a high-speed chase from near the White House through the streets of downtown Washington to the Capitol building.
04 October 2013
American Central Reference Lab in Almaty to study plague
Construction of the Central Reference Lab of Kazakhstan Scientific Center of Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases in Almaty will be completed in September 2015.
04 October 2013
Photographer who captured Robert Kennedy assassination dies
Bill Eppridge, the photojournalist behind the iconic and haunting images of Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1966, has died at the age of 75.
04 October 2013
National Bank approves schedule for transfer of pension assets to Single Pension Fund
Transfer of pension assets and obligations of Kazakhstan's pension funds to the Single Pension Fund will start on October 11 and finish on June 26, 2014.
04 October 2013
Kazakhstan authorities unable to block Facebook and Twitter
Kazakhstan General Prosecutor’s Office has declared that they are still unable to block Facebook and Twitter, in cases of violations of Kazakhstan laws.
04 October 2013
Ireland set to vote on abolishing upper house of parliament
Ireland votes on Friday on whether to abolish its upper house of parliament, a historic move that Prime Minister Enda Kenny argues will save money but which critics say is a power grab.
04 October 2013
Julianne Moore gets star on Hollywood 'Walk of Fame'
American actress Julianne Moore received the 2,507th star on Hollywood Boulevard's "Walk of Fame" Thursday, during a ceremony surrounded by colleagues from her career in film.
04 October 2013
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