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Photo courtesy of messele.com S&P faces US govt suit over mortgage bond ratings The US government plans to sue Standard & Poor's over its rating of mortgage bonds at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis.
05 February 2013
©REUTERS Couch potatoes have lower sperm counts Men who watch television for 20 hours per week have almost half the sperm count of those who watch very little television or none at all.
05 February 2013
Asset Issekeshev. Photo by Yaroslav Radlovskiy© Renewable energy sources to generate 1040 megawatt by 2020 Late January the Government adopted an action plan to develop renewable energy sources in 2013-2020: Minister of Industry and New Technology Aset Issekeshev.
05 February 2013
Photo courtesy of spaceref.com NASA science balloon breaks longest flight record After more than 55 days flying over Antarctica, NASA's huge Super-TIGER scientific balloon has broken the record for the longest flight of its kind, bringing back a wealth of data.
05 February 2013
Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib, the leader of the Syrian Opposition Coalition. Photo courtesy of lapresse.ca Syria opposition head seeks talks with Assad's VP The United States has strongly backed a move by Syria's opposition chief to open dialogue with President Bashar al-Assad in a bid to end 22 months of warfare that has cost tens of thousands of lives.
05 February 2013
Japan summons China envoy in island row Tokyo summoned China's envoy Tuesday in protest at what it says was another incursion into its territorial waters, after Beijing's ships sailed near islands at the centre of a bitter dispute.
05 February 2013
'No big red button' for Oscars host MacFarlane The producers of this year's Oscars show said Monday they have no "big red button" to press in case boundary-pushing host Seth MacFarlane oversteps the mark.
05 February 2013
Barclays announces departure of senior bank staff Barclays on Monday said that its finance director and top legal expert had decided to leave the bank, as the British lender undergoes a shake-up in the wake of the Libor rate-rigging scandal.
05 February 2013
A rocket carrier at Baikonur. Photo courtesy of federalspace.ru First 2013 space launch at Baikonur A Soyuz-2.1 a rocket carrier carrying 6 Globalstar-2 communications satellites will be launched at 22:20 Astana time.
05 February 2013
Soyuz carrier rocket. RIA Novosti© Russia’s Roskosmos Federal Agency’s 2012 spending on infrastructure and space facilities at Baikonur exceeds $33 million Center for ground-based space infrastructure facilities operation (TsENKI) injected another $ 83.2 million into the cosmodrome’s facilities.
04 February 2013
Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Photo by Danial Okassov© Samruk-Kazyna to exit BTA Bank, Alliance Bank and Temirbank: Nazarbayev President stressed that several measures had been taken in the banking system to decrease the external debt and the process had to be continued.
04 February 2013
Map of oil and gas project N. Photo courtesy of wikimedia.org Stake in N block cost KazMunaiGas $32 million As far as I remember, block N cost $32 million: Oil and Gas Minister.
04 February 2013
©RIA Novosti Kazakhstan to retain ceiling fuel prices The ceiling prices of regulated types of fuel will not be increased in Kazakhstan in February.
04 February 2013
LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov.  © RIA Novosti President Nazarbayev meets LUKOIL President The Company has been operating in Kazakhstan for 20 years and invested about $7 billion: Mr. Alekperov.
04 February 2013
Kazakhstan Oil and Gas Minister Sauat Mynbayev. Photo by Danial Okassov© Kazakhstan to forego baning import of Russian oil products There will be no ban, we are interested in supplies of Russian oil products: Minister.
04 February 2013
Kairat Mami to meet with the Pope Kazakhstan Senate speaker and head of the secretariat of the Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions will render a visit to Vatican on February 5-7.
04 February 2013
Photo courtesy of nnm.ru Kazakhstan to provide good conditions for Iranian talks We will take all efforts to create excellent conditions for successful negotiations at the territory of our country: Abibullayev.
04 February 2013
©RIA Novosti Moratorium on developing new hydrocarbons deposits to be only lifted for onshore assets The lift will not cover the Caspian and Aral seas’ basins: Kazakhstan’s Minister of Oil and Gas Sauat Mynbayev.
04 February 2013
Spanish registered unemployed rises to 4.98 mn in January The number of Spaniards officially registered as unemployed rose to 4.98 million in January, according to Labour Ministry data released Monday, as the country's recession deepened.
04 February 2013
Cambodians mass for cremation of beloved ex-king Thousands of Cambodians dressed in black and white gathered Monday ahead of the cremation of revered former king Norodom Sihanouk, who steered the war-ravaged kingdom through six turbulent decades.
04 February 2013

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