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Covid-19: The countries without cases - still

As the world deals with the pandemic, a few have managed to escape it so far.

Ashgabat's new airport - soaring eagle or white elephant?

Turkmenistan's new airport was recently completed at great cost. There's just one problem ...

Inside the secretive city of Ashgabat

Ashgabat is a curious spectacle, rivalling Pyongyang for eccentricities and Dubai for exceptional architecture.

Prison term over President's pet hate

Exploring Turkmenistan's enigmatic capital

"Ashgabat", our guide Dima said slowly, choosing his words carefully between mouthfuls of steaming meat pie, "is paradise".

President gets picky over portrait

Mysterious Caspian Sea stirs the imagination

There are vast oil reserves under the Caspian and swimming in its waters are giant caviar-bearing beluga sturgeon.

Caspian adventures

There are vast oil reserves under the Caspian and swimming in its waters are giant caviar-bearing beluga sturgeon. Both riches have been the subject of disputes between the nations that claim a share of the Caspian and some of these disagreements centre on just how one defines these waters - as international ocean waters or inland sea or lake?

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is nearly 90 per cent desert but in the capital the waterfalls almost never seem to stop flowing. They do so at the expense of the fast-shrinking Aral Sea, one of Central Asia's greatest environmental disaster zones.

Floods kill 27 in northeastern Iran

Oil pipe to loosen Opec grip turned on