Baku - Elchin Afandiyev is a playwright who is little known outside his native Azerbaijan. Theatre impressario David Parry intends to change all that.

Baku - The 2013 Univision Song Contest begins today in the Azerbaijan capital, Baku, with the final scheduled to be held at the Heydar Aliyev Palace this Friday, 21 June.

Oz The Great and Powerful has taken over box offices around the globe by storm. But after the transformations am I the only one thinking what's with Mila Kunis's makeup?

UEFA, governing body for football in Europe, confirmed,Friday, that the finals of the European Nations soccer competition in 2020 will depart from the norm of one, or sometimes two nations, hosting the tournament and will take in 13 cities across Europe.

Animal rights activist Denise Carey-Costa discusses the judicial victimization of pit bull mix Tony in Arizona last year, as highlighted in her book 'Tony's Tale'.

Baku - Oil rich Azerbaijan has so much black gold floating around that petroleum spas offer expensive treatments where the wealthy immerse themselves in baths of crude oil.

In early October 2011, then Prime Minister Putin revealed Russia’s intention to create Eurasian Union, a new inter-governmental economic and political organization, based on the European Union (EU) integration model.

Baku - Swedish pop star pop star Loreen swept to victory in Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest hosted in Azerbaijan, with her popular choice of "Euphoria."

Baku - Iran is embroiled in a diplomatic row with neighbouring Azerbaijan, which is set to host the Eurovision Song Contest. Iranian clerics have protested that a gay parade will feature in the contest, and withdrawn their ambassador from Baku.

A California treasure hunter who salvages shipwrecks claims he has located the watery grave of Osama bin Laden in the Arabian Sea.

Azerbaijani intelligence has today confirmed that it has detained 22 people on the suspicion that they have been spying for Iran.

Geneva - Originally meant to be built in Waxahachie, Texas, under the nickname of Desertron, Switzerland-France's CERN states it has seen "tantalizing hints" of the elusive Higgs boson, also called the "God particle," in two of their experiments.

In what was viewed by an estimated 125 million people around the world, the 2011 Eurovision Song Concert was full of surprises.

A dying mountain bear held captive at a cafe in Azerbaijan was forced to drink Coca-Cola for the amusement of customers. It died shortly, and was replaced by another bear.

Turkish-American relations are set to sour with Ankara's recent diplomatic freelancing in Tehran, not surprising given Washington's incoherent approach to states crammed between Iran and Russia.

As black blood bubbles out of the cankerous wound in the Gulf of Mexico, fossil fuel traffic through the Black Sea is set to grow with the intensified struggle to secure energy corridors from the Caspian Sea region to Europe.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists will hold an award ceremony on Nov. 24, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Two young bloggers from Azerbaijan, Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade, were sentenced to jail on Nov. 11. They were arrested in July after a fight at a restaurant in Baku and formally charged with "hooliganism."

A Russian immigrant was charged for allegedly hiring hit men to kill his 21-year-old daughter for wearing a miniskirt. She was a medical student at the time of her death.

Bat Yeor, an author writing about the relationships of Jews and Christians and Islam's jihad and sharia law, writes that the all-powerful Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is behind the public, ongoing demonisation of Dutch MP Geert Wilders.