Tickets for an Azerbaijan vs Portugal encounter in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying round have gone on public sale. The game will be played at Tofig Bahramov stadium in Baku on March 26 ...

FIFA President Sepp Blatter believes match-fixing affects only a small percentage of soccer games across the world and racism is a bigger problem for the sport. “Football is so big, we will overcome,” Blatter said Saturday. “It is a small percentage. Football will not die.” ...

Azerbaijan and the European Union have discussed prospects for developing the overall cooperation as deputy foreign minister Khalaf Khalafov received a delegation led by Patricia Flor, EU Special Representative for Central Asia. ...

Azerbaijani chess players are competing at the Aeroflot Open 2013 international tournament which got underway in Moscow. Azerbaijan`s squad includes Ilgar Bajarani, Ulvi Bajarani, Zaur Ojagverdiyev, Orkhan Abdulov ...

The pilgrims came, millions upon millions of them, in the greatest tide of humanity ever seen. Again and again, the vast crowds threatened to press too close, to trample the smallest. Then it happened. As many as 30 people were killed Sunday in a stampede at the train station here as they rushed up steps leading to one of the platforms, the police said. The stampede came at the ...

...

Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Rihanna, Jay-Z and Kanye West were early Grammy winners on Sunday as music`s biggest night got under way, announcing winners in more than 60 categories before the televised show. The top categories are dominated this year by male artists, with British folk band ...

Avesta concern has today held a ground-breaking ceremony for a first connecting bridge as part of construction of the Khazar Islands residential complex. President of the Avesta Concern Ibrahim Ibrahimov said more than $1 bln was spent on ...

Students of Baku Slavic University have succeeded at International Olympiad on Slavistics held at Kyiv Slavistic University. Rahila Abdullazade ranked first in contests on Russian language, literature and world history ...

The U.S. military has begun to evacuate military technology and equipment from U.S. Air Force base in Bagram district of Parwan province, Afghanistan, according to a Pakistani TV channel Geo News. As reported in an interview to a representative of the Pakistan Customs Bilal custom clearance company Fawad Khan (Fawad Khan), in complete secrecy the first 25 ...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has today received former Prime Minister of France Dominique de Villepin. The former French Premier praised development processes in Azerbaijan. He congratulated the Azerbaijani President on the launch of the country`s first ...

The Azerbaijan-UK Alumni Association and the US Center of the Azerbaijan State Economic University will co-organize an event called “The role of education abroad in the lives of the youths” next Monday. According ASEU, the event, supported by the UK Embassy in Azerbaijan, will be an informal ...

Composer Elmira Mirzayeva will deliver a lecture entitled “Classical symphonic music of Germany” at the Azerbaijani-German cultural center Kapellhaus February 27. The event will see performance of “Concert for violin and orchestra” by Ludwig van ...

The press centre of the Russian Olympic team was opened in a ceremony in Sochi on Friday. The centre appeared in the Olympic capital a year before the beginning of the Winter Olympic Games, where, with support of the Olympic movement`s world partner Coca Cola, a ...

Azerbaijan Baku Fires made it eight wins from eight to ensure they would finish the regular season top of World Series of Boxing (WSB) Group A after overcoming the challenge of Russia at the Olympic Sports Center `Serhedchi`. Elvin Mamishzada`s successful competitive WSB debut and wins for Belarusian sensation ...

Kyiv-based Garant-Auto insurance company has signed an agreement on cooperation with the SOCAR Ukraine Group under programs on and voluntary insurance. According to the agreement, SOCAR Ukraine insured its property and liability. The ...

On February 8, Arkansas House of Representatives formally recognized Khojaly Massacre. The House Resolution HR1004 recognizing the mass killing of Azerbaijani civilians was introduced to the lower chamber of the state legislature by Congressman Jonathan Barnett and Congresswoman Karen Hopper ...

European buyers who snap up one of the new Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class sedans in its first year on sale can opt for a special package called Edition 1. Meant to celebrate the car`s first twelve months on the market, the CLA-Class Edition 1 ...

Azerbaijani fighters have snatched 3 medals in ETU “A” Class championship of the Trelleborg Open 2013 Swedish Taekwondo Championship. In the women`s event, Azerbaijan`s Narmina Mammadova weighing in at 44 kg won gold after defeating a Cypriot opponent in the final bout. She beat Linna Lottaya of Finland 9-5 and Patricia Striner of Sweden 4-1 on the way to final. ...

On the New York Stock Exchange NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange) cost of the US Light crude oil has fallen $0.11 to stand at $95.72. Price of British Brent crude oil at the London ICE (InterContinental Exchange Futures) ...

Energy Security Committee of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly will convene Tuesday in Azerbaijan`s capital. According to co-chair of the committee, MP Fuad Muradov, the two-day conference will hear a report entitled “Energy market security and coordination between Eastern European ...

The Azeri Tribune has published an article by Berlin correspondent of Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency (AzerTAc) Vugar Seidov. The following is the full text of the article: “In his interview for Azerbaijani information portal News.Az, Dennis Sammut, executive ...

Subunits of the Armenian Armed Forces shattered ceasefire in Shirvanli, Suraabad villages of Agdam region, Ashagi Veyselli, Horadiz villages of Fuzuli ...

Azerbaijan`s outstanding scientist, president of the country`s National Academy of Sciences, PhD in physics and mathematics, professor, academician Mahmud Karimov died at the age of 65 on February 10, 2013. Mahmud Karimov was born on October 18, 1948 in the city of Iravan. Together with his ...

Almaty-based turkelpress.com online newspaper has published Russian language news items of Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency, AzerTAc, on recognition of the Khojaly genocide by foreign countries. The first article says heads of state of member countries of the Organization of Islamic ...