Astana students hold handsStudents of Kazakhstan's Nazarbayev University made an experiment to find out reactions of people at strangers trying to hold their hand.
25 February 2013
Firefox smartphone system challenges Android, iOS Mozilla Foundation announced Sunday it will launch in mid 2013 its widely anticipated Firefox operating system for smartphones in a direct challenge to the duopoly of Apple's iOS and Google's Android.
25 February 2013
Egypt vote could be 'road to total chaos': ElBaradei Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei warned of chaos in the troubled nation if parliamentary polls go ahead in April, as protesters demonstrated in Cairo against Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
25 February 2013
Old-school glamour, pale hues on Oscars red carpet Tinseltown's A-list stars on Sunday offered up a healthy serving of old-school Hollywood glamour on the Oscars red carpet, with strapless gowns and pale colors most definitely in vogue.
South Korea swears in first female president Park Geun-Hye was sworn in as South Korea's first female president Monday, vowing zero tolerance with provocation from North Korea and demanding Pyongyang "abandon its nuclear ambitions" immediately.
25 February 2013
Kazakhstan among most inventive countriesInventions of Kazakhstan’s originators are mostly in chemistry, agriculture and metallurgy that are the leading industries in Kazakhstan.
25 February 2013
Lightning-fast mobile hits speed bump in Europe Lightning-fast fourth generation mobile networks are spreading rapidly worldwide, led by the United States, Japan and South Korea, but Europe lags behind and its economic crisis could brake investment.
Kazakhstan to launch European-style traffic lightsThe traffic lights on road intersections will be changing signals sequentially, i.e. after an interim time interval, the way it is done in Western countries.
25 February 2013
Regional leaders sign peace deal for eastern DR Congo Regional African leaders signed a deal to try to bring peace to the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with plans to reinforce a UN-led mission to combat rebels after years of unrest.
Will the next pope be Italian? After a Pole and a German, will the Roman Catholic Church revert to an Italian leader once again?
25 February 2013
Castro picks 'young' new heir to take regime into future Cuban President Raul Castro won re-election Sunday to what he pledged will be his last term, and finally unveiled a 52-year-old political heir to bring the regime into the future.
25 February 2013
Hathaway wins best supporting actress Oscar Anne Hathaway on Sunday won the best supporting actress Oscar for her searing portrayal of the dying prostitute Fantine in musical adaptation "Les Miserables."