Incidents

The death toll from Japan's earthquake and tsunami rose to nearly 14,000 on Monday, Kazakhstan Today reports.

The death toll in Chiang Mai, Thailand, continues to rise with a seventh person now identified as having died in similar circumstances to a young New Zealand tourist, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Japan sent robots in to stricken nuclear plant to help repair its crippled reactors, Kazakhstan Today reports.

A man in Turkey is lucky to be alive after a powerful gust of wind rolled a shack over him on Thursday.

Police in China were hunting today a 33-year-old man suspected of killing 10 people, including his wife, son and father, Kazakhstan Today reports.

The operator of a troubled nuclear power plant in north-eastern Japan started to transfer highly radioactive water to a nearby storage vessel, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Belarus has arrested several people in connection with the metro bombing in Minsk that killed 12 people, the deputy prosecutor said on Tuesday, Kazakhstan Today reports.

A 54-year-old man from Kazakhstan has been run down by his own car in New Zealand, Kazakhstan Today reports.

A fresh round of tremors, including one with a magnitude of 6.3, shook northern Japan on Tuesday afternoon, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, Kazakhstan Today reports.

The Japanese government has raised its assessment of the severity of the crisis at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant from 5 to 7, the highest level on the International Nuclear Event Scale, Kazakhstan Today reports.