Некоторые выпускники, получившие образование по престижным стипендиям президента Казахстана, обнаружили, что их заграничные дипломы не так полноценны, как они ожидали.
Intellpuke: The following editorial appeared in the New York Times edition for Thursday, April 3, 2008.To understand the White Houseâ ™s blueprint for regulating the financialmarkets, start with what the Bush administration did not do. It did notoffer America a
A Chinese court sentenced an outspoken human rights advocate onThursday to three and a half years in prison after ruling that hiscritical essays and comments about Communist Party rule amounted toinciting subversion, said his lawyer. The conviction of the advocate,
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), the ranking minority member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, revealed Wednesday that he is among the approximately 3,000 heartpatients whose medical information was potentially exposed to publicscrutiny when an unencrypted government laptop was
A top Federal Reserve official told a Senate committee on Thursday thatWashington must increase its regulation of Wall Street in order toprevent other banks from needing rescues similar to the one at Bear Stearns. The official, Timothy F. Geithner, the
Discovery raises questions about theory of how land mass was populated.Scientists have found and dated the oldest human remains ever uncoveredin the Americas - a discovery that places people genetically similarto Native Americans in Oregon more than 14,000 years ago.Working
A top opposition party official says police raided its offices in what he called the start of a crackdown.Opposition party secretary-general Tendai Biti told the AssociatedPress that police raided and ransacked several rooms used by the partyat a downtown hotel.
Three unsolved killings in less than a year share at least onethread: They've spread fear among college students and downtownresidents in Wisconsin's normally laid-back capital.A collegestudent vanished in June after a night of barhopping; her body wasfound in the woods
Airline had chronic safety lapses; flew passengers on jets in need of key checks.Federal aviation safety inspectors testified before Congress Thursdaythat lax oversight by their bosses and other regulators allowed Southwest Airlines last year to fly thousands of passengers on
President Bush won support from NATO on Thursday for his plans tobuild a limited missile defense system in Eastern Europe and finalizeda separate agreement to station part of it in the Czech Republic.Thetwin developments represent significant advances for Bush's plans
A man is in a coma in a Berlin hospital after suffering severe burns. Police believe the injuries were caused when the man tried to steal an electricity cable to sell as scrap.
The first day of the NATO summit saw France and Germany combine forces to thwart the membership ambitions of Ukraine and Georgia. They stood firm in their opposition despite the mounting pressure from US President George W. Bush to admit
The government in Kiev wants to go west. But a big chunk of Ukraine identifies more closely with Russia. Nowhere is the split more evident than in the Crimea peninsula.
Germany was shocked last week to learn that Stasi-like techniques were used to spy on employees of supermarket giant Lidl. Now a report has emerged showing that the chains Plus and Edeka may have done the same. Politicians are being
A chance encounter with a wild boar ended in a trip to the emergency room for one unlucky Berlin pensioner. The boar tore open the man's leg in a bid to protect her piglets from the man's dog.
