News for 31 August 2010
World news
31 August 2010 [15:22]
31 August 2010 [14:57]
A periodical meeting on tourism took place in GUAM Secretariat as part of the GUAM-Japan cooperation on Aug. 30, according to official website of GUAM.
31 August 2010 [11:54]
31 August 2010 [11:28]
Weird / Interesting
31 August 2010 [13:39]
British Airways has apologised after an automated message was accidentally played on a flight telling passengers that their plane was about to crash.
Politics
31 August 2010 [17:35]
31 August 2010 [17:23]
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has today received copies of credentials from new German Ambassador Herbert Quelle, the Foreign Ministry said.
31 August 2010 [16:45]
President Ilham Aliyev has today received ambassadors and heads of diplomatic representations of Muslim countries in Azerbaijan on the holy month of Ramadan.
31 August 2010 [16:35]
The film "Nagorno Karabakh: truth and lies ..." was presented today at the Center for Strategic Research under the Azerbaijani President.
31 August 2010 [15:55]
31 August 2010 [15:45]
OSCE monitored contact line between Azerbaijani and Armenian armies today.
31 August 2010 [15:35]
31 August 2010 [14:45]
Azerbaijani servicemen will be trained at Turkish and Russian higher military schools.
31 August 2010 [14:15]
31 August 2010 [14:08]
The attempt by the opposition Modern Musavat party to hold an unauthorized rally outside the OSCE office in Baku has been prevented.
31 August 2010 [13:08]
31 August 2010 [12:45]
31 August 2010 [12:15]
A meeting of the working group of Azerbaijan Press Council and OSCE Baku Office was held on August 30.
31 August 2010 [11:20]
31 August 2010 [11:14]
On August 30, Baku hosted a ceremony on the Day of the Turkish Army, which was organized under the leadership of the military attaché of Turkey to Azerbaijan.
31 August 2010 [11:06]
31 August 2010 [10:58]
31 August 2010 [10:13]
31 August 2010 [09:52]
31 August 2010 [09:45]
The Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan has confirmed the capture of a serviceman of the Azerbaijani Army Roman Huseynov.
31 August 2010 [09:38]
31 August 2010 [09:33]
Today marks 17th anniversary since occupation of Azerbaijan's Gubadli region by the Armenian armed forces.
31 August 2010 [09:00]
Business
31 August 2010 [16:23]
31 August 2010 [14:25]
31 August 2010 [12:55]
Azerbaijan's Transport Minister Ziya Mammadov and SOCAR president Rovnag Abdullayev visited Georgia on August 30.
31 August 2010 [11:35]
The oil prices may be fixed at $60 a barrel in the 2011 state budget, Azerbaijani Deputy Finance Minister Azer Bayramov said.
31 August 2010 [10:43]
31 August 2010 [10:29]
By means of the GUAM transit corridor in the first six months of 2010, Ukraine met its needs for crude by 25% which is a serious factor, the GUAM Secretary General Valeriy Chechelashvili said.
31 August 2010 [10:20]
The Azerbaijani delegation comprising businessmen and manufacturers will visit Kazakhstan in October.
Society
31 August 2010 [17:45]
31 August 2010 [17:12]
Azerbaijan's Ministry of Culture and Tourism said it is developing a new extreme tourism route in the mountains between Shamakhi and Guba.
31 August 2010 [16:55]
Batumi again has the Baku Street.
31 August 2010 [16:10]
Soldier of Azerbaijani army has shot himself.
31 August 2010 [14:35]
A road connecting Yeni Yasamal district of Baku with the capital's Bilajari settlement will be closed as part of the construction of the Baku Ring Road, a source in the Azerbaijani Transport Ministry reported.
31 August 2010 [13:47]
A married couple from Baku Emin Aliyev and Shahla Aliyeva have died after falling from the mountain in northern Qabala region of Azerbaijan.
31 August 2010 [13:30]
31 August 2010 [13:17]
31 August 2010 [12:35]
An official opening ceremony of the summer school of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) was held Monday at the Ramada hotel.
31 August 2010 [12:24]
Azerbaijani graduates of Turkey's military schools have recently been presented diplomas.
31 August 2010 [11:45]
31 August 2010 [10:03]
The Azerbaijan-Europe Bike Week kicked off in Baku as part of the Year of ecology on Aug. 30.
31 August 2010 [09:25]
The Azerbaijani delegation led by Abdin Farzaliyev, chief of executive power of the Narimanov district of Baku, is on the visit to Astrakhan.
31 August 2010 [09:17]
Baku will host a national expert seminar on cyber security on September 7-8.
31 August 2010 [09:08]
Sports
31 August 2010 [13:55]
The squad of Azerbaijan's Under-21 football team who will face Albania and Belarus within the European Championship's qualifying round was named.
31 August 2010 [12:07]
31 August 2010 [10:50]
Azerbaijan grandmaster Vugar Hashimov's team have won Spanish championship in Sestao, after beating Spaniard Alexei Shirov's team 4.5-1.5 in the final game.
Arts & Entertainment
31 August 2010 [10:35]
The VIII International Noncommercial Festival of Alternative Cinematograph, Irpen Film Festival, kicked off in Ukraine on August 28.
