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Christie's to auction Andy Warhol works online
Christie's auction house said Thursday it will put 125 works of art by the American pop icon Andy Warhol under the hammer in an online-only sale starting next week.
23 February 2013
Sad end for 'Happy Feet Jr.' in New Zealand
A penguin dubbed Happy Feet junior that washed up in New Zealand 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) from his home has died despite intensive efforts to save him.
23 February 2013
US executive blasts 'extremist' French government
An outspoken American CEO criticized France's government anew Thursday, but praised French women and wine and said that he himself was named after the iconic crooner Maurice Chevalier.
23 February 2013
Blast in Arcelor Mittal Aktau; 3 employees injured
Three people were injured by an explosion in a single-storey building at Arcelor Mittal plant in Mangistau obalst in western Kazakhstan.
22 February 2013
Kazakhstan Parliament ratifies International Renewable Energy Agency charter
105 countries are members of the IRENA and 54 countries that have signed the charter, including Kazakhstan, are eying full membership.
22 February 2013
Obama jabs Republicans over tax cuts for rich
President Barack Obama on Thursday said the only thing keeping Republicans together was a desire to shield the rich from higher taxes, in a new jab over an imminent budget confrontation.
22 February 2013
India hunts bombers after Hyderabad carnage
India hunted Friday for perpetrators of twin bomb attacks that killed 14 people and wounded dozens more near a cinema and a bus stand in a busy neighbourhood in the city of Hyderabad.
22 February 2013
Rompetrol to get full control over Rompetrol Rafinare
Kazakhstan-owned Rompetrol and Romanian government signed a Memorandum of understanding on disputes settlement over Rompetrol Refinare.
22 February 2013
Victims of Camry accident in Almaty were students of conservatory
Victims of the horrible car accident of February 21 in Almaty were second-year students of Kazakh National conservatory.
22 February 2013
Russia accuses US over UN statement on Syria attack
Russia on Thursday accused US diplomats of blocking a UN Security Council condemnation of a bomb attack in the Syrian capital that left at least 59 dead.
22 February 2013
Google challenges Apple with high-end laptop
Google unveiled a touchscreen notebook computer Thursday designed for high-end users, throwing down the gauntlet to Apple and its MacBooks.
22 February 2013
4.9-magnitude earthquake hits 156km from Almaty
The shocks were registered at 11:12 a.m. Astana time.
22 February 2013
Only 10 percent of thefts solved in Almaty
The number of thefts went 93 percent up and the number of robberies grew by 18 percent, while their detection rate was 10 and 14 percent: Almaty Interior Department.
22 February 2013
Uncertainty hangs heavy as Italy braces for elections
Italy was poised to hold its most important elections in a generation starting on Sunday, as financial markets warned an unclear outcome could plunge the eurozone's third economy back into crisis.
22 February 2013
French kidnap victims likely separated as search pushes on
A kidnapped French family of seven has likely been separated into two groups by their abductors, France said Thursday, as Nigerian security forces combed restive border areas to find them.
22 February 2013
Historic week looms for Vatican with papal resignation
Pope Benedict XVI's final Sunday prayers in St Peter's Square will signal the start of a week in the Vatican that will make history with the first voluntary papal resignation in more than 700 years.
22 February 2013
Damascus hit by its deadliest bombing in Syria war
A huge car bomb near the headquarters of Syria's ruling party killed nearly 60 people and caused widespread destruction in the deadliest attack to hit Damascus since the civil war erupted.
22 February 2013
Britain braces for fresh Eastern European immigration wave
Coils of Polish sausages glisten on shop counters and vodka bottles line the shelves. In this corner of the English countryside, much of the chatter is in Latvian or Lithuanian.
22 February 2013
'Argo' vs 'Lincoln' in knife-edge Oscars race
Ben Affleck's Iran hostage drama "Argo" goes into Oscars weekend a whisker ahead of Steven Spielberg's presidential "Lincoln," but the race is one of the most unpredictable in recent memory.
22 February 2013
U.S. Secretary of State discovers new country... Kyrzakhstan
Speaking of the new directions of American foreign policy, new U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry read Kyrgyzstan as Kyrzakhstan in his speech.
22 February 2013