The lunar landscapes of Mangystau are opening up to tourism. JR Patterson joins a group of sightseeing Kazakhs for a madcap ...

The 5th World Nomadic Games have kicked off with a grand opening ceremony at the Astana Arena stadium in Kazakhstan, Azernews ...

An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts successfully launched Wednesday for a six-month mission to the International ...

See 13 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Near a wooden hut high up in the Kyrgyz mountains, scientist Gulbara Omorova walked to a pile of grey rocks, reminiscing how the same spot was a glacier just a few years ago.

Metallurgical combine in Kazakhstan. (credit: GETTY IMAGES) We must remember that nuclear ... reminder of the horrors of nuclear weapons. The people of Semipalatinsk, now called Semey, were ...

Since the advent of geobrowser Google Earth, a number of strange and mysterious things around the globe are visible.

An internationally acclaimed artist, who creates moving pictures in sand, is bringing the art form to the UK for the first time. Ukrainian Oksana Merhut, known as the Sand Fairy, is touring with her ...

The last-minute introduction of a second race at Misano, a week before visiting Indonesia, has instigated a scramble in the ...

Conservation photographer "horrified" that her famous photograph of a wolf was used to advertise trophy hunting ...

The 'airport tray aesthetic' trend encourages people to unnecessarily unpack their belongings – the Fujifilm X100VI, or another of the best compact cameras, the Gucci wallet, Lost Mary vape, Prada ...