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Zinc hungry China asks Canada to back giant mine With zinc sources drying up and demand forecast to surge, resource hungry China is looking to Canada to approve two giant mines and close the gap -- but environmentalists and roving caribou stand in the way.

07 January 2013

An Italian teacher who kills celebrities on Twitter Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope Benedict XVI -- Italian Tommasso Debenedetti has killed them all in fake tweets aimed at exposing shoddy journalism that have earned him global notoriety.

07 January 2013

Google maps New Year's resolutions around the world Google is letting people peg their New Year's resolutions to an online map and see what promises others around the world have set out to keep in 2013.

06 January 2013

Ancient Afghan papers shed light on Jewish life A cache of 1,000-year-old documents written by the Jewish community in Afghanistan and unveiled in Jerusalem on Thursday sheds unprecedented light on the mediaeval Jewish community in central Asia.

05 January 2013

US holiday season online spending climbs Industry tracker comScore on Thursday reported that US shoppers spent a total of $42.3 billion online during the year-end holiday season -- a 14 percent jump from the same period in 2011.

05 January 2013

'Black Beauty' could yield Martian secrets A fist-sized meteorite nicknamed "Black Beauty" could unlock vital clues to the evolution of Mars from the warm and wet place it once was to its current cold and dry state.

04 January 2013

Kazakhstan genetics grow embryonic stem cells The technology includes extracting stem cells from an adult and returning them into the embryo form.

04 January 2013

KazMunaiGas and Eni gas-processing plant in West Kazakhstan approved KazMunaiGas and Eni received a positive statement of the state inspection on the feasibility study of a gas-processing plant in western Kazakhstan.

04 January 2013

Almaty subway carried 7 million people in 2012 We did not expect such a flow in 2012. In the coldest days (from December 1 to 20) the number of passengers almost doubled: press-secretary.

03 January 2013

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Dried squash holds headless French king's blood: study Two centuries after the French people beheaded Louis XVI and dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood, scientists believe they have authenticated the remains of one such rag kept as a revolutionary souvenir.

31 December 2012

Fukushima 'unprecedented challenge': new Japan PM The clean-up at Fukushima after its tsunami-sparked nuclear meltdowns is unlike anything humanity has ever tried, Japan's prime minister said Saturday during a tour of the plant.

30 December 2012

Mexico archeologists uncover 800-year-old skeletons Archeologists in central Mexico uncovered the bones of 12 children and adults who may have been buried 800 years ago.

29 December 2012

China launches rival GPS satellite system China has launched commercial and public services across the Asia-Pacific region on its domestic satellite navigation network built to rival the US global positioning system.

29 December 2012

Japan's new govt to review zero-nuclear policy Japan's new leaders set to work Thursday on dismantling plans to rid the country of nuclear power by 2040, pledging to review a post-Fukushima policy.

28 December 2012

China boom savaging coral reefs: study China's economic boom has seen its coral reefs shrink by at least 80 percent over the past 30 years, a joint Australian study found Thursday, with researchers describing "grim" levels of damage and loss.

27 December 2012

Waste-processing plant launched in Astana A facility for sorting and processing of domestic wastes has been launched in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan.

27 December 2012

Toyota says to sell 9.7 mn vehicles this year, up 22% Toyota said Wednesday that it expects to sell 9.7 million vehicles globally this year, up 22 percent from 2011 as Japan's biggest automaker accelerates a recovery after last year's natural disasters.

27 December 2012

World's longest bullet train service begins in China China started service Wednesday on the world's longest high-speed rail route, the latest milestone in the country's rapid and -- sometimes troubled -- super fast rail network.

26 December 2012

Nazarbayev launched solar batteries plant in Astana A plant for production of solar modules has been launched in Astana.

26 December 2012