Kazakhstan woman survives Nepal earthquake
A woman from Kazakhstan was in the capital of Nepal, when the earthquake hit the country. She survived.
Brother of sole survivor on details of plane crash in Zhambyl Oblast
Azamat Shayakhmetov, a brother of the only survivor in the crash of the AN-2 in Kazakhstan's Zhambyl Oblast, has shared the details of the crash that he learned from his sister.
Kazakhstan plane crash survivor called rescue team to crash site: father's account
The father of the sole survivor of the Zhambyl Oblast An-2 plane crash speaks about his daughter's ordeal.
Student survivors testify in Korea ferry trial
Teenaged student survivors of South Korea's ferry disaster began giving video testimony under tight security Monday in the murder trial of the vessel's captain and crew.
Ukrainian plane hit by missile, say villagers on Russia border
Two men lean on the smouldering wreckage of a Ukrainian airforce plane. They poke among the debris, looking for anything of value. Using an iron bar, one of them moves a Kalashnikov rifle to reveal what appears to be a charred human limb.
Bus accident kills 20 in northeast Brazil
Twenty people were killed and 17 injured when the bus they were traveling in overturned Sunday in northeastern Brazil, officials said.
Cargo ship sinks, 11 missing near Hong Kong: officials
Eleven crew members from a Chinese cargo ship are missing after it collided with a container vessel and sank just outside Hong Kong waters on Monday, authorities said.
Small French park becomes home for desperate Syrian families
They ended up there penniless after wandering from country to country for months.
Teen survives five-hour flight in airplane wheel well
A 16-year-old boy was lucky to be alive Monday after surviving a flight from California to Hawaii in the wheel well of an airplane, US media reported.
Most Bangladesh factory survivors still too sick to work
Most survivors of the Bangladesh factory collapse that killed 1,138 garment workers are still too traumatised or injured to work 12 months after the tragedy, AFP reports according to a survey.
Suspected Fulani herdsmen kill 79 in Nigeria
The death toll in an attack by Fulani herdsmen on a village in northern Nigeria's Zamfara State rose to 79 from 30, a governor spokesman said.
Oldest-known Holocaust survivor dies aged 110: family
Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor and the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, has died in London aged 110.
Pacific castaway's story a 'miracle' for his parents
For Salvadoran couple Ricardo and Maria Julia Alvarenga, the reappearance of their son after his incredible story of survival adrift in the Pacific for 13 months is nothing short of a miracle.
Pacific castaway lands back in civilisation
Sporting a bushy beard and clutching a can of Coke, a castaway who says he survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean arrived in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro.
Mexican castaway 'getting better' after months adrift in Pacific
A Mexican man who claims to have survived 16 months adrift on the Pacific was Saturday regaining strength on a remote Marshall Islands atoll as a navy ship was sent to pick him up.
Christmas in mud as rain pelts Philippine disaster zone
Survivors of the Philippines' deadliest typhoon spent a gloomy Christmas Day surrounded by mud Wednesday as heavy rain drove many inside their flimsy shelters, dampening efforts to retain some holiday cheer in the deeply devout nation.
Living wage to be raised in Kazakhstan in 2017
After the controversy around the minimum living wage is Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Population Tamara Duisenova promised to raise the living wage in 2017.
Minimum living wage to starve Kazakhstanis to death
Lawmaker Svetlana Dzhalmagambetova believes that the effective minimum food basket will starve Kazakhstanis to death.
Agonising wait for the missing in Philippine wastelands
In the grieving, grey wastelands that were once bustling towns on tropical Philippine islands, thousands of typhoon survivors are enduring an agonising wait of hope and denial for news of loved ones.
More than 10,000 feared dead in typhoon-ravaged Philippines
Survivors of a super typhoon that may have killed more than 10,000 people in the Philippines were growing increasingly desperate for aid Monday, as authorities struggled to cope with potentially the country's worst recorded natural disaster.