Azerbaijani chess player Arkadi Naydich leads the "PokerStars Isle of Man International 2015" tournament. The Azerbaijani chess player will next face Indian Pendyala Harikrishna ...

Presidents of the Visegrad Four countries and Croatia are meeting today for a two-day-long discussion in Hungary’s Balatonfured on topics including immigration, climate change, and the Western Balkan situation, Hungarian online daily origo.hu reported today ...

The international community today reaffirmed its commitment towards seeking lasting solutions for millions of Afghan refugees, in a bid to end one of the longest displacement situations in recorded history, according to UNDP in Azerbaijan. In a statement issued during ...

Friday’s first practice for the 2015 Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix began half an hour later than scheduled thanks to an earlier diesel spill on the Sochi Autodrom. With the circuit cleaned up, it was Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg who ultimately set the pace after a flurry of late improvements, just 0.052s up on Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg ...

A personal exhibition of famous Azerbaijani artist, Honourable Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts of Russia, Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy of Art and Associate Professor of the Academy of Arts of Azerbaijan Rashad Mehdiyev will be arranged to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Hennessy Cognac House at the Museum of Modern Art in October ...

Azerbaijan`s Anastasia Ibrahimli has won the gold medal in the 69kg section with a score of 226kg at the European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships in Klaipeda, Lithuania ...

Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler Rafig Huseynov (80kg) has progressed to the final of the 6th Summer Military World Games in Mungyeong, the Republic of Korea after beating Armenian Sargis Kocharyan 4-1 ...

Bakcell, the first mobile operator and the leading mobile Internet provider of Azerbaijan, has opened a service center with a brand new concept and design in the city of Lankaran. Bakcell Customer Service Center offers a full range of services for the subscribers at the address of H. Aslanov avenue ...

In accordance with the mandate of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, the OSCE mission has today conducted a monitoring on the troops` line of contact near Kamarli village of Azerbaijan`s Gazakh region. The monitoring ended without an incident. According to Azerbaijan`s Defense Ministry, the monitoring was ...

Azerbaijan`s newly appointed Council General in Batumi Rashad Ismayilov has met head of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara Avtandil Beridze. They discussed prospects for developing Azerbaijan-Georgia relations in particular in cultural ...

The Azerbaijan-Russia intergovernmental commission has convened its 15th meeting in Moscow. The meeting was co-chaired by Azerbaijan`s first Deputy Prime Minister Yagub Eyyubov and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin ...

FIDE World Chess Rapid and Blitz Championship will today start in Berlin, Germany. The highly anticipated tournament gathers 200 top chess players, including 161 grandmasters ...

One person has been killed and three others injured after another shooting on a US university campus, according to the Mirror. A gunman opened fire at northern Arizona University's Flagstaff campus this morning. The shooting happened in a dormitory housing students involved in Greek organizations ...

Azerbaijani taekwondo fighter Aykhan Tagizade (68kg) has won the silver medal of the 6th Summer Military World Games in Mungyeong, the Republic of Korea. On the way to the final, Tagizade defeated his Canadian, Venezuelan, and Italian rivals ...

Newly-appointed Indian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Sanjay Rana has today presented a copy of his credentials to Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov. FM Mammadyarov recalled his official visit to India in 2013, and noted that there were good opportunities for cooperation in energy ...

Italy-based “Fidelity house” website has posted an article highlighting the tourism potential of Baku. The article says that located at the crossroads of East and West, Baku has become a charming cosmopolitan city. “It is worth exploring the city surrounded by ancient monuments and modern buildings.” ...

The central bank of Germany, the Bundesbank, has published the bar list of all German official gold reserves stored in Frankfurt am Main, London, Paris and New York, according to Billion Street. The list contains the bar numbers, melt or inventory numbers ...

Southern African countries have committed to increase their cooperation to stem the tide of VAT fraud, which adversely impacts the region’s economic development. According to South African Government News Agency, the Commissioners General of the revenue authorities ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina has always supported Azerbaijan and will continue doing so, said member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mladen Ivanic as he met with chairman of Azerbaijan`s State Committee on Work with Diaspora, member of Board of Directors of the Nizami Ganjavi ...

Azerbaijani referees will be in charge of Italy vs Ireland U-21 European Championship qualifying round match. The match will be controlled by Aliyar Agayev. He will be assisted by Zeynal Zeynalov and Rza Mammadov ...