Three astronauts landed safely in Kazakhstan Sunday following a 115-day mission aboard the the International Space Station, including US astronaut Kate Rubins, the first person to sequence DNA in space.
A lone gunman with Islamist links killed at least three policemen and two civilians in Kazakhstan's financial capital Almaty on Monday, senior security officials said, the second such attack in less than two months.
Gunmen killed two policemen in Kazakhstan's financial capital Almaty on Monday, security sources and the Interior Ministry told Reuters, as the authorities said they had launched an anti-terrorist operation.
Move over George Soros, Kazakhstan is claiming the title as the most prescient speculator in the pound.
A fire broke out on Saturday at a construction site where Central Asia's tallest tower is being built in the Kazakh capital Astana, the Kazakh interior ministry said.
An air ambulance helicopter carrying a baby girl with suspected leukaemia to hospital has crashed in Kazakhstan, killing all five on board, the emergency ministry said Thursday.
