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Kazakh fans revel in historic Champions League success
Bars spilled joyous supporters into the streets of oil-rich Kazakhstan's capital Astana early after the Central Asian country's leading football club became its first to make the Champions League group stages.
27 August 2015
Olympics: LA officials ponder $4.1 billion 2024 Olympic bid proposal
The Los Angeles city council is reviewing a $4.1 billion bid proposal for the 2024 Summer Olympics that backers say could produce a surplus of $161 million.
27 August 2015
Kazakh judoka Yeldos Smetov wins gold
Kazakhstani judoka Yeldos Smetov has won a gold medal at the World Judo Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan.
25 August 2015
Olga Rypakova from Kazakhstan brings bronze from IAAF World Championship
Kazakhstani athlete Olga Rypakova has won the bronze medal in Women’s Triple Jump at the World Championship in Beijing.
25 August 2015
Kazakhstan's Ilya Iliyn sets world record lifting 250kg in clean and jerk
Ilya Iliyn, Kazakhstan's most celebrated weightlifter, has authored another World Record.
25 August 2015
Golovkin-Lemieux press conference
WBA Super, IBO and WBC Interim middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin and IBF champion David Lemieux have conducted a press conference in Montreal, Canada
21 August 2015
Cotto-Alvarez winner mandated to face Kazakhstan's Golovkin by WBC
Gennady Golovkin’s promoter Tom Loeffler said that the winner of the Alvarez-Cotto fight would face undefeated Triple G of Kazakhstan.
20 August 2015
Attitude, passion and nerves swirl at World Tango Championship
Dancers in love with tango's passion bit their nails and hit the floor as more than 700 couples from far and near converged on Buenos Aires, focused on being best.
20 August 2015
Tour of World Class to take place in Almaty on August 16
Almaty residents are welcomed to take part in the Tour of World Class that will be held on August 16.
14 August 2015
Tokyo 2020 Olympic logo designer faces fresh plagiarism claims
The designer of Tokyo's 2020 Olympics logo said he has withdrawn some designs created for drinks giant Suntory in the wake of fresh plagiarism allegations.
14 August 2015
Rio set for 'great' Olympics: IOC
Rio will stage a great Olympics, as long as it sorts out "millions" of details first, the head of an IOC fact-finding mission said.
13 August 2015
Rental bikes to become part of public transport system in Almaty
Rental bikes will become part of the public transport system in Almaty.
10 August 2015
Nazarbayev opens new Ice Arena in Astana
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has commissioned the Ice Palace in Astana that will become a home arena for Kazakhstan's Barys hockey club.
10 August 2015
I promise big show against Lemieux: Gennady Golovkin
WBA Super, IBO and WBC Interim middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin promises a great show to his fans.
06 August 2015
Kazakhstan's Kairat FC wins Aberdeen FC at Europe League third qualifying 2:1
Almaty-based Kairat FC has defeated the Scottish Aberdeen FC during the first leg of the Europa League third qualifying.
05 August 2015
Golovkin is like Scorpion from Mortal Kombat: Daniel Jacobs
Daniel Jacobs, the WBA World middleweight champion, has given a press conference after the successful defence of his title against Sergio Mora.
05 August 2015
Mayweather can earn a lot from fighting Gennady Golovkin: Max Kellerman
Floyd Maywether Jr (48-0, 26 KOs) should face Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30KOs) before the undefeated American retires from the sports, said HBO sports commentator Max Kellerman.
30 July 2015
Sabina Altynbekova and Denis Ten join Almaty-2022 committee for IOC meeting
Kazakhstani volleyball player Sabina Altynbekova and the bronze medalist of the Sochi Olympics Denis Ten are joining the distinguished Kazakhstani athletes representing Almaty’s bid for the Winter Olympic Games in 2022.
30 July 2015
Swimming: Stars battle for world titles in Kazan's pool duel
With one eye on Rio de Janeiro, swimming's stars begin the battle for world championship medals in Kazan to prove their form heading into the 2016 Olympic Games
29 July 2015
Berlin Jewish Olympics open in 'triumph over evil'
The Maccabi Games, dubbed the Jewish Olympics, opened at the Berlin site of the 1936 "Nazi Games" in what one community leader called "a triumph of good over evil".
29 July 2015