New travel books: 100, 300, 500 and 1000 ideas Nov 17, 2009
From Lonely Planet comes "1000 Ultimate Experiences," organized into categories like "Top 10 places to go skinny-dipping" (including Formentera, Spain); "Dreamiest fairy-tale destinations" (Germany's Black Forest), "Ultimate party cities" (bet you hadn't heard the buzz about Baku, Azerbaijan), and "Essential experiences to make time stand still" (Petra, Jordan). And from National Geographic comes "Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe," including the... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Top 10 cities to party the night away Nov 14, 2009
Baku, AzerbaijanSince the 1990s, when it started taking off as a hub for Caspian Sea oil and gas, Baku has been transformed and this newfound economic stimulation hasn't failed to influence urban nightlife. The cash injection from energy projects, enhanced by the presence of thousands of international oil workers and wealthy consultants, has turned Baku into an oasis of excess in an otherwise fairly traditional Muslim country. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Azerbaijan and Turkeyclash over energy Oct 23, 2009
MONTREAL - In all the debate and speculation over the various pipelines planned for the Caspian-South Caucasus corridor and adjacent regions (Nabucco, South Stream, White Stream, and Trans-Caspian Gas Pipelines in addition to various oil pipeline projects), the troubled state of energy relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey has been lost from view, mainly due to their stellar cooperation in the past over the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and South Caucasus Pipeline for gas in particular ...... (Asia Times Online)
10-man Germany down Russia to seal ticket to South Africa Oct 14, 2009
Russia play Azerbaijan in Baku while Germany host Finland in Hamburg in their last qualification game, but Guus Hiddinks Russian side now face two-legged play-off matches if they are to reach South Africa. We cannot be happy with the result of course, but the team showed character in the second half, said Hiddink. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Sports)
Kloses first-half strike sends Loews men to the World Cup Oct 11, 2009
Russia play Azerbaijan in Baku while Germany host Finland in Hamburg in their last qualification game, but Guus Hiddink s Russian side now face two-legged play-off matches if they are to reach South Africa. Hambury defender Jerome Boateng started his first international in the cauldron of Moscow s Luzhniki Stadium, but a second yellow card midway through the second-half earned him a red card as Germany finished with ten men. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Sports)
Artificial turf and Arshavin may pose a problem for Germany Oct 9, 2009
They travel to Baku to take on last-placed Azerbaijan on Wednesday. Balancing act: Germany coach Joachim Loew shows off his skill during a training session on an artificial lawn in Mainz, central Germany, on Wednesday. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Sports)
View: Let children choose their games Aug 8, 2009
Just before becoming CM, Modi visited Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where he was most impressed by the number of grandmasters, which includes former world champion Garry Kasparov, that the region has produced. Modi was told that this was due to kids learning chess from a very young age. (India Times, India)
Newsweek: Ex-Soviet states restrict Western schools Aug 7, 2009
Several, like the short-lived American University of Baku, Azerbaijan, immediately foundered in suspicion, but surprisingly, most flourished. By 2008, the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (known as KIMEP), for example, boasted 110 foreign professors teaching everything from business administration to international journalism. (MSNBC -- International)
bmi Rolls Out Chauffeur Drive on Key Regional Business Routes Jul 18, 2009
Across its mainline route network bmi operates to Aberdeen; Addis Ababa; Aleppo; Almaty; Amman; Amsterdam; Baku; Beirut; Belfast City; Bishkek; Brussels; Cairo; Damascus; Dammam; Dublin; Edinburgh; Freetown; Glasgow; Hanover; Jeddah; Khartoum; Kiev; London Heathrow; Manchester; Moscow Domodedovo; Palma Mallorca; Riyadh; Tbilisi; Tehran; Tel Aviv; Venice; Yerevan. bmi regional operates to Aberdeen; Birmingham; Brussels; Cologne; Copenhagen; East Midlands; Edinburgh; Esbjerg; Glasgow; Groningen;... (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Is The Karabakh Peace Process In Jeopardy? May 17, 2009
But on May 11, Novruz Mammedov, who heads the international relations department within the Azerbaijani presidential administration, contacted RFE/RL s Baku bureau and offered to give an interview on the Karabakh peace process ... There are several possible explanations for the apparent U-turn on Baku s part ... In both cases, Baku later reneged on the tentative agreement reached. (EurasiaNet.org)
13 killed in shooting at Azerbaijan oil academy May 1, 2009
BAKU, Azerbaijan At least one gunman opened fire at Azerbaijan's prestigious oil training institution on Thursday, killing 13 people and wounding 10, the government said ... Emergency and Interior Ministry officials are seen at the main entrance of the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in Baku on Thursday ... Bekir Belek, a Turkish student, spoke to Turkey's CNN-Turk television from a hospital in Baku. (Globe and Mail -- International)
U.S. weighs Iran route for NATO supplies Mar 13, 2009
Outlines of potential alternatives to routes through Russia emerged in greater detail this week, as the U.S. military played host at a conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, for transportation officials and private contractors from two former Soviet republics Azerbaijan and Georgia and from Turkey to examine new supply routes into Afghanistan. The route would be a west-to-east swing across the Caucasus region and into Central Asian states to the north of Afghanistan. (International Herald Tribune)
