Turkmenistan-focused oil firm Dragon Oil says it was confident of maintaining its 10 to 15 percent target growth rate to 2015, putting it on track to produce 100,000 barrels of oil per day in four years time... more
Turkmenistan-focused oil firm Dragon Oil said profit soared 135 per cent in the first half of the year on higher production from its fields and as the price of oil rose during the period... more
Aktan Arym Kubat's The Light Thief is about a rural society being systematically corrupted and a village electrician (the director himself) who fights against it all... more
Though the Queen has called the display of the royal wedding dress 'horrid', thousands of Kate fans from around the globe are flocking to see it at the Palace. Johanna Thomas-Corr reports... more
Soaring numbers of foreign diplomats and embassy staff in London are being arrested - but escape justice because they claim immunity from prosecution... more
Major deals to set up oil and gas infrastructure in Iraq and Turkmenistan help Petrofac beat City expectations and post a 26% rise in pre-tax profit to $557.8 million for 2010... more
Lord Mandelson is fully entitled to tout his services on the after-dinner circuit, but his obsequious praise for his hosts at a dinner held by Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund has raised a few eyebrows... more
Bomb rocks the centre of Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishek, ahead of a visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, slightly wounding two policemen... more
Market round-up: Rumours of interest in Lookers are revived, with the City’s big mouths claiming that a private equity firm is mulling a bid worth 95p per share... more
Mobs of rioters slaughter Uzbeks and burm their homes and businesses in Kyrgyzstan’s worst ethnic violence in decades, making more than 75,000 flee the country... more
At least 26 people are killed and 450 injured as hundreds of youths fight and set shops and cars ablaze in Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest city Osh ... more
Who is the mysterious beauty on Prince Andrew's arm these days? Goga Ashkenazi is much more than mere consort material; she's a billionaire industrialist, jet-setter, single mother and diamond-lover. Lydia Slater is awestruck... more
Video: Opposition in Kyrgyzstan proclaims that it has seized power today after an uprising that left dozens of people dead and hundreds injured... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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