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11 August 2017 • 08:53 AMT
Armenia improves position in FIFA world rankings

Armenia’s rivals in the World Cup qualifying round, Poland, Montenegro and Kazakhstan took the 5th, 52nd and 105th positions, respectively.

11 August 2017 • 08:36 AMT
Aronian retains leader’s spot after Sinquefield Cup draw with Svidler

Sergey Karjakin is now tied for fourth place with Magnus Carlsen, half a point below Aronian, Vishy Anand and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

10 August 2017 • 12:56 AMT
Merkel support slides six weeks before election

Merkel has little to fear as her Social Democrat rival Martin Schulz hit a new low of 33 percent, down four points from last month.

10 August 2017 • 12:33 AMT
Samsung Galaxy Note 8 will hit the shelves on September 15: report

Although duration of preorder dates will be shorter than that of Galaxy S8, duration of pre-activation dates is longer.

10 August 2017 • 12:08 AMT
Boko Haram prefers women, children as suicide bombers

At least 244 of the 338 attacks in which the bomber’s gender could be identified were carried out by women.

10 August 2017 • 11:12 AMT
Next iPhone could feature resizable home button, face recognition

Guilherme Rambo found references to ‘Pearl ID’ that suggest it will be able to store multiple faces and will be accessible by third party apps.

10 August 2017 • 10:57 AMT
Controversial Princess Diana documentary to air in Australia

Channel Seven will screen the film in what it is billing as an ‘exclusive special’ on it’s flagship current affairs program Sunday Night.

10 August 2017 • 10:31 AMT
Manchester United seek to return Zlatan Ibrahimovic

United are stepping up their efforts to secure a return for the player who shone in his first season in the Premier League.

10 August 2017 • 10:21 AMT
Game of Thrones: The most Googled character revealed

Google data reveal which characters are the top most searched for since the day the seventh season of the show aired.

10 August 2017 • 09:58 AMT
Tesla upgrades Autopilot hardware in new cars

A spokesperson says 2.5 is really about adding “computing and wiring redundancy” that “very slightly” boosts reliability.

10 August 2017 • 09:34 AMT
Kaspersky Lab withdraws antitrust complaints against Microsoft

Kaspersky alleged that Microsoft had erected unfair obstacles for independent security vendors on its Windows 10 operating system.

10 August 2017 • 09:25 AMT
Sarah Paulson reveals ‘American Horror Story: Cult’ details

The 42-year-old actress was joined on the panel by her co-stars Leslie Grossman, Adina Porter, Billie Lourd, and Alison Pill.

10 August 2017 • 09:17 AMT
LG’s V30 will be world’s first phone with f/1.6 lens

One of the additional improvements LG has made to its V30 imaging is a reduction in edge distortion with its wide-angle camera.

10 August 2017 • 08:58 AMT
WWII bomb reportedly found at Japan Fukushima nuclear plant

The 85-centimetre long object was discovered by workers constructing a parking lot close to the facility’s reactors.

10 August 2017 • 08:32 AMT
Levon Aronian tops Sinquefield Cup, becomes world number 2

The Armenian grandmaster beat Hikaru Nakamura of the United States to take the leader’s position and become world’s number 2.

10 August 2017 • 08:20 AMT
Toyota to push back start of Mexico plant to early 2020

Toyota said the delay was necessary to adjust its supply chain in Mexico to produce Tacoma cars instead of the Corolla model.

09 August 2017 • 13:09 AMT
Biggest ever dinosaur discovered

Researchers who examined and dated them said the long-necked creature was the biggest of a group of large dinosaurs called titanosaurs.

09 August 2017 • 12:49 AMT
Yerevan: No clarity over Armenian-Azeri presidents meeting

The meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers will be held in the second half of September in New York.

09 August 2017 • 12:36 AMT
There’s an easy way of getting Microsoft’s Outlook.com beta

You’ll have to edit the URL each time, as even navigating to the https://outlook.live.com/mail URL won’t work by itself.

09 August 2017 • 12:22 AMT
Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez to star in new Woody Allen film

The still untitled project will be the third film that Allen, the preeminent chronicler of on-screen neurosis, directs for Amazon Studios.

09 August 2017 • 11:28 AMT
2018 Nissan Leaf will cost less than Tesla Model 3, Chevy Bolt EV

The 2018 Leaf will make 147 horsepower and 236 pound-feet of torque, a significant bump over the 107 hp and 187 lb-ft in the current model.

09 August 2017 • 11:09 AMT
2017 iPhones to reportedly come in three colors

Kuo previously said the iPhone 8 would be available in a limited number of colors, but made no mention of its two companion devices.

09 August 2017 • 10:58 AMT
Venezuela’s constitutional assembly declares itself superior body

“We are not threatening anyone,” said the constitutional assembly’s first vice president. “We are looking for ways to coexist.”

09 August 2017 • 10:46 AMT
OSCE conducts regular monitoring of Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line

From the Artsakh Defense Army positions, the monitoring was conducted by Ghenadie Petrica, Ognjen Jovic, and Martin Schuster.

09 August 2017 • 10:34 AMT
Disney eyes own streaming service, plans to pull movies from Netflix

The new Disney-branded streaming service will follow a similar offering from ESPN that will be available starting in 2018, the company said

09 August 2017 • 10:15 AMT
Artsakh refutes Azeri claims of subversive attack as “fairy tale”

In a Facebook post, Senor Hasratyan defined the reports as yet another fairy tale, invented for the Azerbaijani audiences alone.

09 August 2017 • 09:46 AMT
16 states to dazzle on Tbilisi stage for Junior Eurovision Song Contest

A new voting structure will be introduced to allow viewers from around the world to vote online for their favourite artists.

09 August 2017 • 09:24 AMT
GoT originally had a love triangle between Jon, Arya and Tyrion

The first part of this excerpt from Martin’s letter follows Tyrion’s eventual arc fairly closely, but then it takes a turn.

09 August 2017 • 09:05 AMT
“Groundhog day” cameraman John Bailey names Oscars new president

The film academy president traditionally appears on the Academy Awards telecast. Next year’s ceremony is the 90th.

09 August 2017 • 08:54 AMT
Psychologists who helped design CIA ‘torture program’ to stand trial

The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of ex-detainees, will be the first involving the program to go to trial.