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Smog over Almaty. Photo by Nikolay Ustinov© Environment-friendly engine invented in Almaty Roman Kochkanyan from Almaty has developed an engine that will help reduce smogs in Almaty or at least cut its concentration.
18 February 2013
Signing memorandums. Photo by Marat Abilov© First Kazakhstan-made Toyota to be assembled in spring 2014 A memorandum was signed between Toyota Motor Corporation and Kazakhstan government to produce Toyota Fortuner.
18 February 2013
Could 9-year-old win youngest best actress Oscar? She landed the part by lying about her age: Quvenzhane Wallis was five, and the filmmakers were only auditioning girls at least six years old.
18 February 2013
Al-Qaeda offshoot claims Baghdad bombings Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq has claimed a wave of bombings targeting Shiite areas of Baghdad that killed at least 21 people Sunday.
18 February 2013
Scientists discover Russian meteor fragments: report Scientists have discovered fragments of the meteor that spectacularly plunged over Russia's Ural Mountains creating a shockwave that injured 1,200 people and damaged thousands of homes.
18 February 2013
Europe sharply split over military support for Syrian rebels Britain, apparently backed by a handful of European Union allies, is fighting to lift an EU arms embargo barring the supply of weapons to the Syrian rebel coalition battling President Bashar al-Assad.
18 February 2013
French film 'Les Intouchables' wins Spanish film award The French blockbuster "Les Intouchables" won the best European film prize at the prestigious Spanish film awards, the Goyas, on Sunday, while Pablo Berger's "Blancanieves" took the top film award.
18 February 2013
Crisis-hit arms market shrinks, first time since 1994: SIPRI For the first time since the mid-1990s, sales of the 100 biggest arms dealers excluding China declined in 2011 as the economic crisis prompted budget cuts.
18 February 2013
Canadian papal contender not a prophet in own land Canada's Cardinal Marc Ouellet, a mainstream conservative churchman who once said becoming pope "would be a nightmare", is now widely seen as the North American candidate for the job.
18 February 2013
DRC peace agreement to be signed February 24: UN UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will attend a signing ceremony next week in Addis Ababa for an accord aimed at pacifying the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
18 February 2013
Almaty thermal power plant No.2. Photo by Yaroslav Radlovskiy© Almaty thermal power plant to stop using residual oil by end of 2013 Validation tests of the plasma-fuel systems at the Thermal Power Plant No.2 in Almaty will start in spring 2013.
18 February 2013
Ecuador's Correa calls for resolution of Assange case Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa called on Europe Sunday to quickly settle the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has been holed up in the country's embassy in Britain for eight months.
18 February 2013
Photo courtesy of tengrinews.kz Kazakhstan to produce flu and TB vaccines The Science Fund will start constructing a biopharmaceutical plant for production of biological products under the GMP standard: expert.
18 February 2013
Auto racing: Patrick's Daytona pole makes NASCAR history Danica Patrick topped qualifying for the Daytona 500 on Sunday to become the first woman to earn pole position for one of the hugely popular NASCAR stock car racing's elite events.
18 February 2013
Photo courtesy of Kazakhstan Football Federation Football: Kazakhstan retains position in FIFA The Kazakhstan team, coached by Miroslav Beranek, scored 16 points for its victory over Moldova in a friendly with the score of 3:1.
18 February 2013
US protesters urge Obama to act on global warming Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Washington Sunday to generate pressure on President Barack Obama to take concrete measures to fight global warming.
18 February 2013
Control post. Photo by Roza Yessenkulova© Almaty drivers fined 1 billion tenge in 2 months Over 98 thousand violations of traffic rules were registered and 95 thousand tickets worth over 1 billion tenge were issued in Almaty since December 2012.
18 February 2013
Asset Issekeshev. Photo courtesy of PrimeMinister.kz Issekeshev checks on gas treatment project in Karaganda oblast Minister of Industry and New Technologies checked on the industrialization process in Karaganda oblast in central Kazakhstan.
17 February 2013
Berlin fest draws to close after Romania claims top prize The 63rd Berlin film festival wraps up Sunday after awarding its Golden Bear top prize to "Child's Pose", a mother-son psychodrama set among post-communist Romania's new ruling class.
17 February 2013
Kazakhstan National Bank. Photo by Yaroslav Radlovskiy© Kazakhstan to retain inflation at 6-8 percent Kazakhstan National Bank has approved the Key Monetary Policies of Kazakhstan for 2013.
17 February 2013

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