The guide Jennifer Lopez should have read before she sang in Turkmenistan. Russia loses $200 mln satellites as launch ends in fiery failure. India Minister: Yet to Hear from Kazakhstan About ONGC's Bid for Oil Field

The Guardian - The guide Jennifer Lopez should have read before she sang in Turkmenistan - It isn't just David Cameron who has been criticised this week for cosying up to a repressive dictator in a former Soviet state – Jennifer Lopez performed at an event in Turkmenistan on Saturday night.

Today's Zaman - Russia loses $200 mln satellites as launch ends in fiery failure - A Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites worth around $200 million crashed shortly after lift-off from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan on Tuesday after its engines suddenly switched off.

The Wall Street Journal - India Minister: Yet to Hear from Kazakhstan About ONGC's Bid for Oil Field - India's Oil Minister Veerappa Moily said Tuesday that he was yet to hear from the Kazakhstan government about whether the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp Limited had lost out in its bid to buy a stake from ConocoPhillips (COP) in the Kashagan oil and gas field.