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North America leads shift in global energy balance, IEA says in latest World Energy Outlook

North America leads shift in global energy balance, IEA says in latest World Energy Outlook

The global energy map is changing in dramatic fashion, the International Energy Agency said as it launched the 2012 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO). The Agency's flagship publication, released today in London, said these changes will recast expectations about the role of different countries, regions and fuels in the global energy system over the coming decades. November 12 2012, 18:16 2 071 views

Statue of Yuri Gagarin unveiled in Texas

Statue of Yuri Gagarin unveiled in Texas

November 12 2012, 17:12 2 470 views

Main decisions in Ablyazov’s case in London made by Tony Blair's eldest brother

Main decisions in Ablyazov’s case in London made by Tony Blair's eldest brother

Main decisions in Ablyazov’s case in London were made by Blair's eldest brother, reported the Respublika. November 12 2012, 11:31 5 768 views

French Mayor on Hunger Strike to Protest Budget

French Mayor on Hunger Strike to Protest Budget

PARIS (AP) — The mayor of a French town struggling with poverty is on a hunger strike in front of the National Assembly to protest what he calls "financial penury" and lack of support from the national government. November 12 2012, 09:42 1 850 views

David Petraeus resigns as head of CIA after admitting to extra-marital affair

David Petraeus resigns as head of CIA after admitting to extra-marital affair

David Petraeus resigned as director of the CIA after admitting an extra-marital affair, reported dailymail.co.uk on Friday. November 10 2012, 01:45 2 025 views

‘Russian Breivik’ releases hate manifesto, kills 6 over relationship breakup

‘Russian Breivik’ releases hate manifesto, kills 6 over relationship breakup

Dmitry Vinogradov, 30, was arrested Wednesday on charges of killing five of his colleagues and critically injuring two. A Moscow lawyer shot five of his coworkers in the head Wednesday, killing them in a murder spree that targeted those he deemed responsible for the recent end of a romantic relationship. The sixth victim died in hospital the following day. November 9 2012, 14:49 2 485 views

Argentine judge embargoes Chevron assets

Argentine judge embargoes Chevron assets

BUENOS AIRES, Nov 7 (Reuters) - An Argentine judge has embargoed up to $19 billion in Chevron Corp assets in the South American country over an environmental damages lawsuit in Ecuador, a lawyer for the plaintiffs told reporters on Wednesday. November 9 2012, 10:54 2 123 views

Interpol elects first woman president

Interpol elects first woman president

INTERPOL yesterday elected a French police commissioner known for her war on organised crime as its first woman president. "Mireille Balestrazzi, of France, becomes first woman to be elected president of Interpol," the body said at its general assembly in Rome. November 9 2012, 10:05 2 472 views

Iraq official: Exxon Mobil wants out of big field

Iraq official: Exxon Mobil wants out of big field

U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. has expressed an interest in pulling out of a major oil field development project in the country's south, a senior Iraqi oil ministry official said Wednesday. November 8 2012, 15:27 2 018 views

Argentina 'freezes Chevron assets' over Ecuador damage

Argentina 'freezes Chevron assets' over Ecuador damage

A judge has ordered $19bn (£11.9bn) of assets held by oil company Chevron to be frozen in Argentina over an environmental damages claim in Ecuador, lawyers in the case say. November 8 2012, 15:20 2 062 views

From Hu to Xi: How China elects its new leader

From Hu to Xi: How China elects its new leader

Chinese leadership is meeting in Beijing to install fifth generation of Leadership. More than 2,000 delegates are expected to meet for the Congress over a period of two weeks (8 November-14 November) to bring about once-in-a-decade leadership change. November 8 2012, 14:58 2 272 views

Obama wins election

Obama wins election

A sharply divided America worried about the nation’s economy gave President Barack Obama a second term Tuesday, choosing him over Republican Mitt Romney. November 7 2012, 10:09 2 019 views

Russia, Arabs agree on need to move forward on Syria

Russia, Arabs agree on need to move forward on Syria

CAIRO: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in Cairo on Sunday with Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi for talks about the Syrian conflict, agreeing on the need to move forward but finding little common ground. November 6 2012, 09:57 2 012 views

US election: Obama and Romney deadlocked for final push

US election: Obama and Romney deadlocked for final push

The US presidential candidates are in the thick of the final two days of campaigning, with the outcome still too close to call. November 5 2012, 11:13 2 232 views

Syrian rebels capture oil field

Syrian rebels capture oil field

Syrian rebels firing mortars and rocket-propelled grenades captured an oilfield in the country's east on Sunday after three days of fierce fighting with government troops protecting the facility, activists said. November 5 2012, 10:59 2 068 views

Billionairess Goga Ashkenazi has fallen into the 'Lapo of Luxury' finding love with Fiat heir

Billionairess Goga Ashkenazi has fallen into the 'Lapo of Luxury' finding love with Fiat heir

Billionairess Goga Ashkenazi has found love again with Fiat heir Lapo Elkann. Kazakh-born Goga, left, who is a close friend of Prince Andrew, had been in a five-year on-off relationship with oil tycoon Timur Kulibayev, the son-in-law of the president of Kazakhstan. November 5 2012, 10:33 9 898 views

Russian Nationalists March in Moscow

Russian Nationalists March in Moscow

MOSCOW, November 4, RIA Novosti - Thousands of Russian nationalists and ultra-conservative Orthodox activists marched along a central Moscow embankment on Sunday to protest mass immigration and demand tougher internal travel restrictions on people from the country’s mainly Muslim North Caucasus. November 4 2012, 23:31 4 570 views

China expects sharp rise in oil and gas output

China expects sharp rise in oil and gas output

China's combined oil and gas output will exceed 600 million tones of oil equivalent in 2030, due to substantial increases in geological resources in the country's northeastern region, reported china.org.cnon November 2. November 3 2012, 21:24 2 028 views

Kazhegeldin asks magistrate to start investigations on Rakhat Aliyev

Kazhegeldin asks magistrate to start investigations on Rakhat Aliyev

Lawyers file police challenger after Commissioner of Police failed to investigate allegations of torture made against Kazakh multi-millionaire exile Rakhat Aliyev. November 2 2012, 17:23 3 796 views

Addleshaws demands recusal of Teare J in $6bn Ablyazov dispute

Addleshaws demands recusal of Teare J in $6bn Ablyazov dispute

Addleshaw Goddard is in the High Court this afternoon to lodge a recusal application requesting that Mr Justice Teare stands down from the multi-billion dollar dispute between Kazakh JSC BTA Bank and its client Mukhtar Ablyazov. November 2 2012, 12:47 2 063 views

Venice suffers its worst floods in 22 years

Venice suffers its worst floods in 22 years

Heavy rains and high winds left Venice almost completely flooded on Monday after surrounding sea levels rose to their highest in 22 years. November 2 2012, 11:55 2 168 views

Brace yourself for a brace of wild Mikhail Bulgakov with Sky Arts

Brace yourself for a brace of wild Mikhail Bulgakov with Sky Arts

For those craving colour, drama and a sense of imaginative recklessness that the drizzly bedding in of autumn threatens to wipe from our souls, December will deliver us a double dose of Mikhail Bulgakov. The Russian writer, possibly the finest of the Soviet area (not that Stalin would let him publish much), will be disinterred again both for a startling series on Sky Arts and for a revival of the theatre company Complicite’s stage version of Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita at the Barbican. November 1 2012, 17:54 2 719 views

China 'should move to two-child policy'

China 'should move to two-child policy'

China should immediately end its one-child policy and instead adopt a two-child scheme, a foundation with close links to the highest levels of the Communist party has said. October 31 2012, 19:15 2 149 views

North Dakota cattle taking hold in Kazakhstan

North Dakota cattle taking hold in Kazakhstan

Dean Gorder, executive director of the North Dakota Trade Office, said about a dozen Kazakh cowboys will visit North Dakota ranches next month for an intensive, two-week crash-course in tending cattle. October 31 2012, 03:47 3 000 views

Woman suspected of embezzling $5bln from BTA Bank detained in Czech Republic

Woman suspected of embezzling $5bln from BTA Bank detained in Czech Republic

Tatyana Paraskevich, suspected of embezzling $5 billion from BTA Bank, has been detained in the Czech Republic, the Interior Ministry's Investigative Department reports. October 30 2012, 17:41 2 591 views