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One man was killed and two more wounded in a shoot-out outside a mosque in central Copenhagen on Tuesday morning.
The attacks came as worshippers left morning prayers on Eid, the festival that ends the Muslim month of fasting.
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IKEA’s billionaire founder Ingvar Kamprad was a member of the Swedish Nazi party and was such a concern to secret service they opened a file on him, according to a new book.
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Sting has backed out of a concert in Kazakhstan to mark the President’s birthday, in protest at a government “crackdown” on striking oil workers.
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Royal Dutch Shell and its partners are to ask the Kazakh government for an extension to the 2013 deadline for the first oil from their troubled Kashagan field.
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Grigori Marchenko, who has pulled out of the race to run the IMF, was a reluctant contender who first he heard of his candidacy by text message on the day it was agreed at a meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the group of former Soviet countries.
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Christine Lagarde’s appointment as IMF Managing Director is a “done deal”, Grigori Marchenko, the IMF candidate backed by the former Soviet block, has said, as he prepares to back out of the race as early as Friday evening.
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Turkmenistan has ripped down the notorious sun-tracking statue to its founding president, only to build it 60 feet higher.
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Kazakhstan’s leading opposition figures have accused Glencore of benefiting from an illegal privatisation of assets, amid fears the recent commodities sell-off could hurt the company’s valuation or force it to pull its $61bn flotation.
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A French court will be asked to rule next week on whether Islam Karimov, the president of Uzbekistan, qualifies as a “dictator”, in an unprecedented libel case involving his glamorous daughter.
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One of the closest aides of Kazakhstan’s President could become his country’s richest man when Glencore, the Swiss trading giant, floats in London this month.