At least three countries are queuing up to try the billionaire banker for alleged embezzlement on ‘an epic scale’

Teams are vying for a shot at the play-offs to the full competition

The authoritarian leader of Kazakhstan visited David Cameron in Downing Street while he was on a private trip to London with his family this week, it has emerged.

Angelino Alfano accused of ordering an 'extraordinary rendition' to help Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev

A dismantlable research station created in the icy wastes for the British Antarctic Survey has been shortlisted for a global architecture award.

A Russian rocket carrying three satellites has crashed in Kazakhstan shortly after launch.

Karipbek Kuyukov couldn't enter the country because he couldn't provide fingerprints

President Nazarbayev said he had been watching Cameron and praised him for 'the way he protects the interests of the British people all over the world'

Pressure groups have called on the PM to raise human rights  issues with the regime

Mr Cameron will be the first serving British Prime Minister to visit the former Soviet republic

It should be both easy and timely for Cameron to publicly raise concern about human rights abuses and the imprisoned opposition leader at the highest levels

The government of Kazakhstan last night looked set to take the scandal-struck mining giant ENRC off the London Stock Exchange in the hope of stemming the tide of negative publicity it has brought the mineral-rich nation.

The scandal-riven oligarchs behind mining group ENRC today looked poised for success in their attempts to buy the company for a knockdown price of £3 billion after they secured the reluctant backing of its biggest shareholder, and rival, Kazakhmys.

It was the perfect crime. The French newspaper Le Parisien reported that a 52-year-old Frenchwoman had been apprehended for impersonating her own daughter in an English exam.