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American computer game designer and two crewmates docked with the international space station Tuesday</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rooney double as 5-goal England find touch</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/football/10/11/world.england/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/football/10/11/world.england/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Wayne Rooney led the way with two goals as England ultimately ran riot against Kazakhstan at Wembley with a 5-1 win to stay firmly on course for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Armstrong to ride for Astana team in 2009</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/09/24/cycling.armstrong/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/09/24/cycling.armstrong/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lance Armstrong has confirmed that he will 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But with sticker shock at the checkout, the passage of a controversial $300 billion farm bill, and the increasingly skeptical coverage of the ethanol boomlet, people sure are interested now. Such news turns a spotlight on Deere &amp;amp; Co. 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It's late for dinner - or for interviews - in Almaty, Kazakhstan's former capital. But self-made Kazakh uranium czar Moukhtar Dzhakishev is just hitting his stride. Between spoonfuls of Beluga caviar and bites of ruby-colored tuna flown in from Dubai, he is explaining that his small state-owned company, Kazatomprom, will soon rule the global nuclear energy industry. "I don't think there will be any competitors," he says softly. 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for both teams of the preliminary round of the 2008 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Russia bans Lufthansa flights</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/02/lufthansa.russia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/02/lufthansa.russia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Russia has revoked the right of Lufthansa's cargo unit to fly over its airspace, forcing the German-based airline to divert its flights to Kazakhstan, a company spokesman said Friday, as government negotiators from both sides met to resolve the dispute.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Inside the nuclear underworld: Deformity and 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He is also the main character played by Sacha Baron Cohen, in the recently released film, "Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Portugal beaten by Smolarek double</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/football/10/11/euro.groupa/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/football/10/11/euro.groupa/index.html</guid><description>A first half double by striker Ebi Smolarek gave Poland a shock 2-1 win over Group A favorites Portugal in their Euro 2008 qualifier on Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vinokourov wins but Valverde leads</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/09/03/cycling.spain/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/09/03/cycling.spain/index.html</guid><description>Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov won a second successive stage at the Tour of Spain on Sunday ahead of Spaniard Alejandro Valverde who moved into the overall race lead.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>German Wegmann takes Dauphine lead</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/06/05/cycling.dauphine/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/06/05/cycling.dauphine/index.html</guid><description>German Fabian Wegmann took the overall lead in the Dauphine Libere race on Monday after winning the first stage.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Russia top group after third win</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/05/10/icehockey.worlds/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/05/10/icehockey.worlds/index.html</guid><description>Russia scraped past Slovakia 4-3 in a scrappy game at the world ice hockey championship in Riga on Wednesday to secure top spot in Group C.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2006 16:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Julich starts defense with victory</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/03/05/cycling.nice/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/03/05/cycling.nice/index.html</guid><description>American Bobby Julich made a great start to his defense of the Paris-Nice title when he won the opening prologue, a 4.8km time trial, in the French capital on Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:52:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Avoiding bird flu dangers</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/10/20/flu.advice/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/10/20/flu.advice/index.html</guid><description>The detection of bird flu in Europe and further deaths from the disease in Asia have heightened health concerns for people visiting affected countries.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rice: Kazakh democracy before 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earth</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/06/17/space.scorpions/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/06/17/space.scorpions/index.html</guid><description>Russia's Photon M-2 laboratory has safely returned to Earth with its crew of lizards, scorpions, snails and other animals.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ukraine edge closer to qualifying</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SPORT/football/06/04/worldcup.ukraine/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SPORT/football/06/04/worldcup.ukraine/index.html</guid><description>Ukraine edged closer to their first appearance in the World Cup finals when they Kazakhstan 2-0 and maintained their unbeaten record in Group Two.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2005 20:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>KAZAKHSTAN</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/05/13/bt.kazakhstan.business.tips/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/05/13/bt.kazakhstan.business.tips/index.html</guid><description>Bridging Europe and Asia, Kazakhstan has a complex cultural identity, which blends Mongol, Russian and Turkish influences.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2005 10:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building a sustainable future</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/11/foster.visionary/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/11/foster.visionary/index.html</guid><description>Two trends will affect global practice over the next two decades: the need to pursue sustainable patterns of development; and the opportunities presented by developing economies.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2005 11:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pipers that still pay</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/05/02/8258482/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/05/02/8258482/index.htm</guid><description>For the past year, hydrocarbons have provided most of the market's energy. 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We are expected to communicate in English and sometimes German with clients and customers. That's sometimes a problem, not just because of the language barrier but because of cultural differences as well. 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"It's flat, alkaline, not many trees," he says. </description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 1998 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>EMERGING MARKETS INVESTORS MIGHT NEVER HAVE HEARD OF             THIMPHU OR MUSCAT, BUT THEY COULD BE PUTTING MONEY IN THEIR    </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/08/18/230183/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/08/18/230183/index.htm</guid><description>A few years ago, Mark Mobius, president of Templeton Emerging Markets, saw a sign for a brokerage in Botswana's capital city, Gaborone, and ambled in to ask where he could find the stock exchange. ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 1997 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Risk management</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/12/26/80134/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/12/26/80134/index.htm</guid><description>Companies operating in dangerous regions need to cope with the security void left by the withdrawal of the Soviet and American empires. To stopper up the safety gap in far-flung locales from Kazakh...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>NOW HEAR THIS </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/11/14/79976/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/11/14/79976/index.htm</guid><description>-- Henry Kissinger, 71, ex-Secretary of State, speaking to the Economic Club of New York, on political prospects in the former Soviet Union: "In 500 years, no Russian leader has ever left office vo...</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Russia's Rip-off Smokes</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/10/17/79874/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/10/17/79874/index.htm</guid><description>Smoking is a no-no in the Clinton White House, but word apparently hasn't traveled the globe. In Russia, Muscovites are hawking a flimsy, filterless smoke called Clinton, which comes wrapped in red...</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>GETTING PUSHED OUT OF AMERICA You want to know why jobs and investment are fleeing the U.S.? Just ask this big oil mogul. But is</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/09/05/79686/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/09/05/79686/index.htm</guid><description>I'm doing a lousy job, confesses the boss. "I stand up there before an audience, and I sound just like a big damn oil mogul. I sound like the tobacco companies ten years ago. I haven't figured out ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dan Rather's other rating, the tax on losers, Al D'Amato goes ecological, and other matters. A DEFENSELESS SENATE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/21/76862/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/09/21/76862/index.htm</guid><description>The U.S. Senate's failure to pass a defense authorization bill in August is widely and properly viewed as a policy disaster. On the brighter side, the debate leading up to the disaster makes great ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE BLACK GOLD RUSH IN RUSSIA The former Soviet Union has as much undiscovered oil as the Middle ) East. Chevron's $20 billion p</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/06/15/76526/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/06/15/76526/index.htm</guid><description>THE OLD SOVIET UNION is still a potential superpower -- in oil. The independent republics, particularly Russia, may well have up to a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil, about equal to what's ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>LET'S DO BUSINESS The Soviet Union is open for deals as never before. As a top executive warns, ''If U.S. companies wait until a</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/09/23/75512/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/09/23/75512/index.htm</guid><description>BORIS YELTSIN never actually said the words across the top of this page, at least not within earshot of this writer. But he might as well have. Everything the Russian President and his new partner,...</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>