MADRID:- World No 1 Serena Williams was given a reasonable test in her first match at the Madrid Masters on Sunday against Kazakh qualifier Yulia Putintseva before the American eventually prevailed 7-6 (7/5), 6-1. Putintseva had come through two rounds of qualifying and she seemed to ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AFP) - All 21 people on board a domestic flight in Kazakhstan operated by SCAT airline died Tuesday when their jet crashed on approach to Almaty airport in thick fog, the airline said."Twenty people were on board - five crew members and 15 passengers," the airline said in a ...

A fire at a drug treatment center in southern Kazakhstan killed 38 people early Sunday, officials said. The blaze broke out at about 5:30 a.m. local time (2330 GMT) and spread over an area of 7,000 square feet (650 square meters) in Taldykorgan in the Central Asian nation's south, the Emergency ...