A compromising video has appeared on the Internet of an investigative journalist who has been extensively reporting on government corruption in Azerbaijan.
Authorities in Azerbaijan have arrested 22 people they say were spying for Iran and plotting attacks on Israeli and Western targets, the government announced Wednesday.
When protests swept across Tunisia and Egypt at the beginning of this year, history student Jabbar Savalan was inspired.
Azerbaijan is making the most of its energy wealth, but can it fuel a new golden period?
Azerbaijan's capital looks to transform itself with plans for a modernist urban area called White City.
Azerbaijan's capital Baku might have an ancient heart, but it is getting a remarkable modern face.
Tough, strong and noble; these are the sorts of qualities one would expect from a national symbol.
CNN's Jim Clancy explains the secret to Azerbaijan's name.
What I first noticed when arriving in Baku, beyond the world's tallest free-standing flag pole, was the oil derricks in the Caspian Sea, visible from western hotels steadily rising along the coast.
The young in Azerbaijan are obsessed with chess. CNN's Jim Boulden reports from the capital of Baku.
Azerbaijan is an oil and gas rich nation that hugs the western shore of the Caspian Sea.
Azerbaijan was awarded the open seat on the U.N. Security Council Monday after Slovenia dropped its bid.
Four countries, including Pakistan, were elected Friday to join the UN Security Council in January as nonpermanent members for two-year terms. Also elected, via secret ballot, were Guatemala, Morocco and Togo.
Restoration works are underway in Azerbaijan repaving trade routes stretching across the globe thousands of years ago.
The International Olympic Committee told CNN Friday that they are waiting on the result of an investigation by amateur boxing's world governing body into allegations that huge bribes were paid so Azerbaijan can win gold medals at the London 2012 Games.
Amnesty International's demand for the release of Eynulla Fatullayev, a journalist from Azerbaijan, was met just two days after the organization's UK branch launched a social media campaign.
Amnesty International has sought to end human rights abuses around the world for 50 years. CNN's Natalie Allen reports.
While several European countries have long had their own versions of "American Idol," the longest running televised pop music competition where fans choose their favorite songs and singers is Europe's Eurovision Song Contest, now in its 56th year.
Azerbaijan took top prize in the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, snagging the country's first-ever win.
While America gets ready for the finale of "American Idol" and tunes into hot new shows such as NBC's "The Voice," Europe is busy watching the continent's annual vocal competition that many say gave rise to the entire phenomena of televised singing throw-downs: Eurovision.
Singer Al Jarreau "became weak from the altitude" in the French Alps and was hospitalized Wednesday, forcing the jazz singer to cancel several shows in France, Germany and Azerbaijan over the next week, his publicist said.
Singer Al Jarreau "became weak from the altitude" in the French Alps and was hospitalized Wednesday, forcing the jazz singer to cancel several shows in France, Germany and Azerbaijan over the next week, his publicist said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues her trip to Central Europe and the Caucasus with stops in Azerbaijan and Armenia on Sunday.
CNN's Ivan Watson takes an inside look at the state ballet of the Republic of Georgia.
Linking Europe with the oil reserves of the Caspian Sea, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline was one of the largest engineering projects ever undertaken in the region.
An Azerbaijani jail has been hailed for its work treating TB among its inmates.
Two satirical bloggers who staged an interview with a donkey were sent to prison in Azerbaijan Wednesday, following a two-month trial for assault, the father of one told CNN.
Turkey and Armenia signed an agreement Saturday night establishing diplomatic relations after nearly a century of animosity.
The governments of Armenia and Turkey will sign a peace agreement in Zurich on Saturday that would normalize relations after nearly a century of animosity between the neighboring nations, the Swiss government said Friday.
Hours after Turkey and Armenia announced a tentative, Swiss-mediated peace deal, opposition politicians in Turkey were blasting the proposal.
Six countries agree to build a pipeline, aimed at breaking Russia's near-monopoly on natural gas supplies to Europe.
Officials from six countries gathered Monday in Turkey and signed a deal to build a U.S.-backed pipeline, aimed at breaking Russia's near-monopoly on natural gas supplies to Europe.
A gunman killed 12 people Thursday at a university in Baku, the capital of the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, before killing himself, the country's interior ministry said.
A European security organization expressed hope Tuesday that the recent release of three journalists in Azerbaijan signals positive change in the former Soviet republic.
The head of Azerbaijan's air force was fatally shot outside his home Wednesday morning, two independent news agencies reported.
The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq is swiftly dwindling as security and stability return to the country, and by January only the United States and five other nations are likely to remain, according to a top military officer.
The president of oil-rich Azerbaijan has been re-elected to a second five-year term by landslide
Singapore, New Zealand and the United States have the world's friendliest business climates for small companies, according to a World Bank report released this week.
Turkey and Armenia face off on the football pitch for a historic match. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
As the traditional adversaries face each other in a World Cup match, their presidents seek to effect a thaw
The Vice President vows support and money, but his mission is to keep oil and gas from the Caucasus flowing to the West
Vice President Dick Cheney reiterated U.S. support for Georgia on the opening day of a tour of three former Soviet republics.
Russia may have slowed Georgia's move into NATO, but it may remind neighbors why they want Western protection
A scarcity of petroleum engineers means hard-to-get crude is increasingly difficult to extract -- and even high salaries will not solve the problem overnight
Authorities in Azerbaijan recently uncovered a radical Islamic terror plot against the U.S. Embassy in the capital, Baku, prompting the facility to close its doors to the public Monday, Azerbaijan and U.S. officials told CNN.
Ten people are trapped alive under the rubble of a 14-story building that collapsed killing at least seven in Azerbaijan's capital, emergency services said on Wednesday.
The U.S. government said Friday it had agreed not to prosecute Omega Advisors Inc., a $6 billion hedge fund, over its role in an alleged scheme to bribe Azeri officials and gain control of the Azerbaijan state oil company.
Russia's new proposal for a missile defense system in Europe is far afield from what the United States has in mind and unlikely to garner much support, defense analysts said
U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Thursday at the G8 summit in Germany to cooperate on missile-defense systems, apparently cooling tensions between the two leaders.
From Indonesia to Iraq, developing countries can mean big new markets. But foreign locales can also be risky - as in physical danger. Whether it's a mugging, flu outbreak, anti-American backlash, o...
Copper topping $8,000 a ton? Just a few years ago the metal ranged from $1,300 to $3,000 a ton. Demand from China plus hedge fund speculators equals crazy prices. It now costs 1.23 cents to make a penny. This shall not stand.
Fortune: The world at riskupdated: Thu Apr 13 2006 12:53:00
MARCH 31, 2006 A look at hot spots, economic fault lines, and events that might have an impact on global risk.
Dr. David Olson has had patients in a remote region between Armenia and Azerbaijan. He has treated people in the breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia near the Black Sea and in a gulag prison hospital in Siberia. He has had patients in a northwest Uganda town called Arua.
Health officials in Azerbaijan say the deadly H5N1 strain has been found in dead birds from the country's Caspian sea coast.
The bodies of all 23 people aboard a turboprop plane that crashed near the Azerbaijan capital of Baku have been recovered from the wreckage, police said.
Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan failed to meet international standards for free and fair voting, an observer mission said Monday in an announcement that could embolden opposition parties to take to the streets of this former Soviet republic.
The campaign chief of an exiled opposition leader has been detained, his party said Saturday, one day before Azerbaijan's people elect a new parliament amid allegations of electoral fraud and fears that protests could be violently suppressed.
Offers of aid and assistance from countries around the world in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina continued to pour in Tuesday to the U.S. State Department.
The alleged recruiter of six Yemeni-Americans from upstate New York who went to al Qaeda military training camps in the summer of 2001 denies recruiting the men or being connected to the terrorist organization linked to the September 11 attacks.
Fortune: By The Numbersupdated: Mon Nov 15 2004 00:01:00
Does the U.S. have a corruption problem? Transparency International, a global watchdog, recently released its tenth annual corruption perceptions index, a worldwide survey of businesspeople and cou...
An Azerbaijani cargo plane has crashed in northwest China killing all seven crew members, according to Xinhua news agency.
Fortune: A Two-Suitcase Storyupdated: Mon Sep 04 2000 00:01:00
Increasingly these days, writing about business means writing about lawyers. Think about it: tobacco, HMOs, Internet file sharing--these are all stories that hinge largely on the outcome of litigat...
When a guy called the Pirate of Prague asks you to partner up with him again--you lost your shirt the first time--it's easy to be dismissive. Nonetheless, in the kind of audacious ploy only he coul...
You know," Viktor Kozeny announces, as he steers his twin-engine KingAir, Captain Viktor, into the blackening skies over the Caribbean, "when it gets dark and there's a haze like this, it is just l...
Fortune: Street Lifeupdated: Mon Mar 01 1999 00:01:00
STAKING A CLAIM IN THE 'INTERNET SPACE'
These are bleak days in the brokerage business: The junk bond market has collapsed, taking with it the leading underwriter of junk, Drexel Burnham Lambert, which filed for bankruptcy in mid-Februar...
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