Incidents

Despite its long-known harmful effects, asbestos has found its way into private houses and buildings across Japan, causing irreparable and sometimes fatal damage to people unknowingly exposed to the substance.

A pipeline that sends natural gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan exploded early Wednesday morning, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Ukraine marked the 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident at its Chernobyl power plant today.

A man suspected in a burglary in the 400 block of Green St. in Olde Towne was shot and killed Saturday night by police, a department spokeswoman said. Friends of a man who was shot say he was from Kazakhstan.

A citizen of Kazakhstan tried to hijack an Alitalia flight from Paris to Rome Sunday night, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Japan Thursday said it would ban people entering the 20 km evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo, Kazakhstan Today reports.

BP is suing Transocean, the owner of the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year, for $40bn in damages, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Authorities were considering restricting access to the evacuation zone around Japan's crippled nuclear plant Wednesday to limit radiation exposure to residents who may want to return to their homes, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Officials say three students have been injured after a Houston kindergartner brought a gun to school that accidentally discharged when it fell from his pocket, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Workers at Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant have begun removing highly radioactive water from the basement of a reactor building to on-site storage, Kazakhstan Today reports.