Russian Soyuz capsule has returned to Earth with its three-man crew after they spent 123 days at the International Space Station. Two Russians, Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, and their American colleague Joe Acaba made the safe return in Kazakhstan on Monday morning. Another crew of three who took off in May remain on the International Space Station. Russian Soyuz capsule has returned to Eart…
…ccount The three were subsequently released on Friday night before Saturday’s arrest of Azmat and Diaz. Their apartment was raised because police say the younger Boston Marathon bombing suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, may have lived at their address. It also appeared that Dzhokhar Tweeted pictures of the BMW on his Twitter account J_tsar. In one picture the car is next to another dar…
…had been completely destroyed. The Antonov An-72 plane was carrying border service officers, including acting head Turganbek Stambekov. KTK TV said the plane had disappeared from radar shortly before 19:00 Kazakhstan time (13:00 GMT) as it was making its descent near Shymkent, which is the main Kazakh city in the south, some 75 miles (120km) north of the Uzbek capital, Tashkent. Eyewitnesses told…
Kazakhstan’s shooting team has been left stunned after Borat spoof anthem was played during a medal ceremony at the 10th Arab Shooting Competition in Kuwait instead of the real one. Kazakh team asked for an apology and the medal ceremony was later rerun. The team’s coach told Kazakh media the organizers had downloaded the parody from the internet by mistake. The song was produced by B…
…demons and perform exorcisms. It appears that the boys’ father, Anzor Tsarnaev never stood up to his wife as she was the “boss” of their house. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s story began in the mid 1980s when a young Kazakh soldier called Anzor Tsarnaev, now 47, met his future wife Zubeidat , now 45, whilst completing his two years of military service. Anzor Tsarnaev was aged 19 or 20 at the ti…
The Kazakh Olympic team is hoping to boost its chances of sporting success at London 2012 with horsemeat sausages. Sports officials in Kazakhstan say that the traditional dish may help the athletes’ performance. But it is unclear whether the sausages will be allowed into the UK, because of strict import controls on meat. Kazakhstan is fielding 114 athletes at the London games, which begin i…
…banned his hit comedy film, Borat, which had been accused of poking fun at Moscow’s neighbor and close ally Kazakhstan. Tajikistan is an ex-Soviet state ruled by President Emomalii Rahmon since 1992. A rugged, mountainous country, Tajikistan is Central Asia’s poorest nation. One Tajik political scientist, Muso Asozoda, forecast the ban would be similarly counterproductive as the Borat…
…sts in connection with Boston Marathon bombings took place at the Hidden Brook housing complex in New Bedford Their apartment was raised because police say the younger Boston Marathon bombing suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, may have lived at their address. It also appeared that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted pictures of the car on his Twitter account J_tsar. In one picture the BMW is next to ano…
…e ISS. The three new arrivals are due to return to Earth in September. The other three members of the ISS crew arrived in December and will leave in May. Over the next six months the crew will perform 137 investigations on the US operating segment of the station, and 44 on the Russian segment, according to a statement from the US space agency, NASA. NASA said that the investigations will cover hum…
…ight with police, suffering from “blast and potentially gunshot wounds …probably a blast injury [and] possibly shrapnel” throughout his trunk. His brother, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, aged 19, is surviving Boston bomber, named Suspect 2 by police, who was seen on CCTV wearing a white baseball cap. Freelance photographer Johannes Hirn made Tamerlan Tsarnaev the subject of a photo essay,…
A US tanker aircraft has crashed after taking off from the Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan, local reports say. The cargo plane had left the US Manas airbase near the capital Bishkek, officials told AFP. The aircraft came down near the village of Chaldovar, about 160km (100 miles) west of the US Transit Center at Manas, the Kyrgyz emergencies ministry said. The emergency situations ministry said the p…
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…Thursday evening. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died after a gun battle with police during which he was run over by his younger brother as he fled the scene in a vehicle, police have said. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who was later captured and is recovering in a prison hospital from gunshot wounds, reportedly told FBI investigators of the plan for a 4th of July attack. He also told interrogators that the two…
…ev’s uncle Ruslan Tsarni to CNN from his home in Maryland. “This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely.” Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a police shootout Friday, April 19. His younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was charged Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill, and he could face the death penalty if convicted. Under the tutelage of a friend kn…
Sources close to the FBI investigation claim that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did not act alone and were part of a 12-man terror sleeper cell. According to a source, the FBI was working furiously to track down the cell amid concerns that further attacks on American soil are being planned and carried out. On Saturday afternoon, two 19-year-old men from Kazakhstan named by neighbors by their fir…
The first gold medal of the London 2012 Olympics has been won by China, which ended the first day on top of the medal table. Yi Siling’s victory in the women’s 10 m air rifle was the first of six medals for China, including four golds. Mingjuan Wang took weightlifting gold, Sun Yang won China’s first male gold in swimming and Ye Shiwen, 16, set a world record in the 400 m indivi…
The Russian Soyuz rocket system has been pressed back into service, five days after a failed launch. The vehicle successfully put six spacecraft in orbit for US satellite phone and data company, Globalstar. The Soyuz lifted away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 17:09 GMT, ejecting the last of the six Globalstar platforms an hour and 40 minutes later. Last Friday, a Soyuz malfunctione…
Phobos-Ground, the $170 million Russian probe, is now heading back to Earth and will crash between January 6 and January 19, but it’s not possible to predict where until a few days beforehand. The Phobos-Ground craft, which was supposed to travel to Phobos, one of Mars’s two moons, became stuck in Earth orbit after its thrusters failed. What’s more, one of the probe’s gauges has a small amount of…
Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-05M carrying a three-man crew has blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz rocket set off from Kazakhstan at 02:40 GMT on Sunday with Russian, Japanese and American astronauts on board. They are set to dock with the ISS, a $100 billion research complex orbiting around 385 km (240 miles) above Earth, early on Tuesday. NASA said the Soyuz TMA-05M…
Sarajevo Film Festival Proudly Presents Award Winners for 2012: Feature Film Jury: Kornél Mundruczó (president of the jury), Frederic Boyer, Ada Condeescu, Eva Diederix and Igor Martinović The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film: EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY / TOATA LUMEA DIN FAMILIA NOASTRA Director: Radu Jude (Romania) Financial Award, in the amount of 16,000 €, is provided by Council of Eu…
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has paid the US government $60 million to settle charges alleging it paid millions of dollars in bribes to build its business in Europe and China. Employees made the payoffs to secure sales contracts for Pfizer products, according to court filings. Healthcare officials “improperly rewarded”, the Securities and Exchange Commission said. The US drugs giant…
…le for US tax. The US is right up there in the medals table, and has produced some of the finest displays in the Olympics so far. Michael Phelps has broken the record for most Olympic medals ever, and 16-year-old rising star Gabby Douglas has won the all-round gold in the gymnastics – the first African-American woman to do so. So the US is feeling pretty proud of its athletes right now. But…
Eight people have been arrested in Houston, Texas, on charges of illegally exporting hi-tech components to Russian security bodies. Alexander Fishenko, who owns companies in Texas and Moscow, was charged with operating in the US as an unregistered agent of the Russian government. The indictment names 11 suspects, all of whom are due in court in Houston except for three who are in Russia. There wa…
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