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NASA's Mars Curiosity. ©Reuters/NASA/Handout Life on Mars hopes fade after rover findings: study Hopes of finding life on Mars suffered a setback after new findings from NASA's Curiosity rover detected only trace amounts of methane gas in the Red Planet's atmosphere.
21 September 2013
3rd International Arts Festival <i>Japanese Autumn</i> Japanese Autumn Art Festival to be held in Almaty Japanese Autumn, the 3rd International Art Festival, will be held from September 23 to October 5 in Almaty.
21 September 2013
US waiting for Syria chemical arms list With the clock ticking down on a Russian-US deal, the United States said Thursday it expected Syria to hand over a list of its chemical arms within the next few days.
21 September 2013
Photo courtesy of domaiamenews.com Tech-backed coalition makes transparency push global An Internet freedom coalition backed by US technology giants asked Thursday for 21 countries to release information on national security and law enforcement data requests.
21 September 2013
'Several people' injured in Chicago shooting: police Police said several victims were wounded late Thursday in a shooting at a South Side Chicago park.
21 September 2013
Foreigners flock to New Zealand for gay marriage More than 80 same-sex couples, including 24 from overseas, have said "I do" in New Zealand since a law legalising gay marriage took effect a month ago.
21 September 2013
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. ©Reuters/Sari Gustafsson/Lehtikuva Outgoing Microsoft CEO most regrets lapse in mobilephones Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday his biggest regret is missing the boat on smartphones -- but he said the software giant should not admit defeat just yet.
21 September 2013
Venezuela accuses US of blocking diplomatic efforts Venezuela accused the United States of hampering its diplomatic efforts Thursday, saying Washington was denying airspace to its China-bound president and blocking visas for its UN delegation.
21 September 2013
Photo courtesy of cigarettesflavours.com Smoking to be banned in English prisons: report Smoking is set to be prohibited in all prisons in England and Wales over fears of that staff may bring compensation claims.
20 September 2013
Apple buyers rue high price of new 'low cost' iPhone Apple acolytes in Asia kicked off the global rollout of two new iPhones Friday, but complaints about its high price and no new alliance in the vast Chinese market threatened to dampen the mood.
20 September 2013
Photo courtesy of kp.ru Four suicides in one week in neighboring houses shake Aktau Four people have committed suicide by jumping off their windows in the neighboring multi-storey buildings in Aktau.
20 September 2013
Photo by Yaroslav Radlovskiy© 'Specially for Men' channel launched in Kazakhstan A new TV-channel called Turan has been launched in Kazakhstan.
20 September 2013
©Reuters/Edgard Garrido Study suggests brain protein as Alzheimer drug target Scientists have a new lead on a possible treatment to slow Alzheimer's disease by targeting a protein involved in limiting flexibility in the aging brain.
20 September 2013
The missile made in 1939. Photo courtesy of the press-service of the Interior Department of Northern Kazakhstan Oblast. Soviet-time bomb neutralized in Petropavlovsk Kazakhstan military engineers have eliminated a mortar bomb made in 1939 in Petropavlovsk in northern Kazakhstan.
20 September 2013
Rescuers pull bodies from Mexico mudslide Rescuers pulled two bodies Thursday from a mudslide that buried a Mexican village, but dozens remained missing after storms lashed the country and killed almost 100 people nationwide.
20 September 2013
©yarkocross.kz Color Run paint showering race to take place in Astana Runners of the run race will be showered with brightly colored paints in Astana.
20 September 2013
Photo courtesy of nst.com.my Renoir works, personal items fetch $1.3 mn at NY auction A collection of over 100 letters, photos, plasters, drawings and personal items that once belonged to Pierre-Auguste Renoir were sold at auction Thursday in New York.
20 September 2013
Vanadium production. Photo courtesy of kv.ucoz.kz Kazakhstan vanadium deposit among world's top 5 largest The vanadium deposit in Kazakhstan's Kyzylorda oblast can cover 10 percent of the global vanadium market.
20 September 2013
Iran president offers to broker Syria talks Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said Thursday his government was ready to "help facilitate dialogue" between the Syrian government and the opposition.
20 September 2013
Sergey Leskevich. ©tengrinews.kz Sergey sustained brain injury, after that there was someone else instead of him: terrorist's father Sergey Leskevich, a citizen of Kazakhstan who was recently arrested in Kyrgyzstan as a member of a terrorist group from Syria, was officially a disabled person of group two, his father told in an interview.
20 September 2013

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