Drought-ridden Australia needs all the rain it can get, but earlier this month something other than precipitation fell from the sky. Millions of tiny spiders appeared to rain down on a rural town as they "flew" and landed in spider webs as part of a "migration ...

Azerbaijani Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfas Garayev has met his Bangladeshi counterpart Asaduzzaman Noor who is visiting Azerbaijan to attend the 3rd World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue ...

A working session of UNESCO University Twinning and Networking Programme (UNITWIN) has kicked off at ADA University as part of the 3rd World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue ...

“President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev will not be able to attend the Eastern Partnership Summit of the European Union to be held in Riga on May 21-22,” said the Azerbaijani President`s Aide for Public and Political Affairs Ali Hasanov ...

Azerbaijani first lady, president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva has visited the Baku Clinical Medical Center No 1, where the people who were injured in a fire in an apartment block in Binagadi district, are being treated ...

On May 19 a fire broke out in a multi-storey building on 200/36 Azadlig Avenue in Binagadi district. President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev visited the site of the incident in the morning of May 20. The head of state gave instructions to members of the relevant State Commission on a range ...

A delegation led by Vice-President of Bulgaria Margarita Popova has visited the Alley of Honors to lay flowers at the tomb of national leader, founder and architect of modern Azerbaijani state Heydar Aliyev. They also put flowers at the grave of prominent ophthalmologist, academician Zarifa Aliyeva ...

The price of oil has fallen in the world markets. On the New York Stock Exchange NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange) cost of the US Light crude oil decreased $1.44 to stand at ...

The situation on the contact line between Azerbaijan and Armenia has remained tense as the Armenian Armed Forces shattered ceasefire a total of 60 times throughout the day, Azerbaijan`s Defence Ministry said. The ceasefire was violated in nameless hills in Gadabay region ...

Azerbaijani students took part at the Cultural Festival in Georgian Black Sea University, on May 19. The exhibition organized with the support of Azerbaijani Embassy to Georgia and the performances of the dance group has deeply impressed the participants ...

The Azerbaijani president’s Aide for Public and Political Affairs, Ali Hasanov, has said that President Ilham Aliyev is seriously concerned over the fire in a multi-storey building in Baku’s Binagadi district. “Mr President gave instructions to relevant government bodies ...

Azerbaijani Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov has said “occupation of the territory of Azerbaijan and ethnic cleansing of local population from homes of their origin does not represent a solution and will never produce a political outcome desired by Armenia” ...

Azerbaijan’s Minister of Culture and Tourism Abulfas Garayev has met Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad bin Ameen Madani. The sides noted that relations between Azerbaijan and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation ...

Hopeful holiday home owners who are looking for some peace and quiet could bag a property for less than £1 in an idyllic Italian village. Local authorities of three increasingly empty Italian towns are hoping to attract new residents by cutting the prices of some of their houses to just 1€. ...

The death toll from a massive landslide in northwestern Colombia has reportedly surpassed 60, with rescue teams still looking for survivors. Local officials said Tuesday that 61 people died and 37 others sustained injuries in the landslide that hit Colombia’s ...

The 50 member NOCs comprising the European Olympic Committees (EOC) have today unanimously approved in principle the Netherlands as hosts of the second edition of the European Games in 2019 at an Extraordinary General Assembly in Belek, Turkey, giving the EOC Executive ...

Gadabay has become the next destination for the Baku 2015 first European Games Journey of the Flame. At the symbolic gate of the European Games in the region, the flame was accepted by local athlete Nurlan Mammadov. Ten torchbearers ...

A mild earthquake has today hit the Azerbaijani sector of Caspian Sea, according to the Republican Seismological Service Center of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. The quake was recorded at 10:50 local time. ...

AZERTAC and Anadolu Agency have expressed interest in carrying out joint projects as AZERTAC’s Director General Aslan Aslanov met Deputy Director General of the Turkish agency Metin Mutanoglu. They discussed ways of expanding the bilateral cooperation. ...