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03 June 2017 • 12:47 AMT
Martin Short, Maya Rudolph join Ricky Gervais in “Willoughbys”

The project is based on the Lois Lowry children’s book of the same name. Rudolph will be the voice of Nanny, who looks after the Willoughby children.

03 June 2017 • 12:31 AMT
“Black Prince” to open London Indian Film Festival

The closing night film is Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s “Sexy Durga,” which has been winning acclaim on the fest circuit.

03 June 2017 • 11:45 AMT
Scientists now know how your brain differentiates faces

While these findings still need to be replicated, this work could help inform facial recognition technologies and AI.

03 June 2017 • 10:58 AMT
Toyota ends electric-car ties with Tesla, report suggests

In 2010, the two companies agreed on a comprehensive cooperation with the Japanese auto giant paying $50 mln to buy 3.15% of shares in the U.S. electric automaker.

03 June 2017 • 10:41 AMT
300 ceasefire violations by Azerbaijan registered over the past week

Azeri forces employed various caliber firearms as well as 82-mm mortars and grenade launchers in different sections of the frontline.

03 June 2017 • 10:30 AMT
Joint patrols to target Asia’s Islamic militants

Malaysia said that it will work with the Philippines and Indonesia to conduct joint patrols in the Sulu Sea.

03 June 2017 • 10:17 AMT
U.S.-backed forces seize IS-held town near Syria’s Raqqa

Fighting since late last year has displaced tens of thousands of people according to United Nations sources, many of whom head for camps in the area.

03 June 2017 • 09:31 AMT
U.S. warns Beijing over militarisation of South China Sea islands

In July 2016, an international tribunal ruled against Chinese claims, backing a case brought by the Philippines, but Beijing said it would not respect the verdict.

03 June 2017 • 09:14 AMT
Mkhitaryan wins Man Utd’s Goal of the Month again

Mkhitaryan’s instinctive effort in the showpiece in Sweden earned a whopping 68% of the final vote.

03 June 2017 • 08:51 AMT
Serj Tankian looking to set up a music festival in Armenia

Serj Tankian composed a theme song for the Aurora Prize, which was inaugurated a year ago in the Armenian capital Yerevan.

03 June 2017 • 08:27 AMT
Tom Cruise reveals “Top Gun 2” title

Joseph Kosinski who directed Tom Cruise in “Oblivion” is a frontrunner to sit behind the lens.

03 June 2017 • 08:18 AMT
“Game of Thrones” final season may not arrive until 2019

“Game of Thrones” season 7 is set to premiere July 16. While HBO has mainly kept the details under wraps, spoilers keep hitting the web.

03 June 2017 • 08:06 AMT
Xprize enlists sci-fi authors, filmmakers to map our future

Xprize and ANA have also created a new science fiction anthology site, Seat 14C, which will showcase original stories by members of the advisory council.

03 June 2017 • 07:50 AMT
“Pirates of the Caribbean” Galaxy S8 comes with its own booty chest

The plain black device comes in fancy box with a ring fob and phone case styled for franchise’s latest movie, “Dead Men Tell No Tales”.

03 June 2017 • 07:18 AMT
Russia lifts ban on imports of Turkish food

Russia is also lifting a ban on Turkish workers in the construction sector, in tourism and in hotel businesses.

03 June 2017 • 07:05 AMT
UN expands targeted sanctions against North Korea

The measures impose a travel ban and asset freeze on four entities and 14 officials, including the head of North Korea’s overseas spying operations.

03 June 2017 • 06:44 AMT
German police suspend open-air rock concert over terrorism alert

Last year, the third and final day of the “Rock am Ring” was canceled after lightning strikes injured 80 people, some seriously.

03 June 2017 • 06:39 AMT
China, Europe vow to save the Earth despite Trump’s climate pact snub

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that while the United States should have remained in the 2015 deal, he would not judge Trump.

02 June 2017 • 14:17 AMT
Goethe Institute Center may open in Armenia

President Sargsyan expressed hope for Mr. Lehman’s visit to open up a new chapter in Armenian-German cultural cooperation.

02 June 2017 • 14:03 AMT
Putin says Snowden was wrong to leak U.S. spy secrets, but is no traitor

Snowden, 33, was given asylum in Russia in 2013 after leaking classified information about U.S. spy operations.

02 June 2017 • 13:53 AMT
Brexit impact “manageable” for EU economies, German govt study says

Many in Britain have suggested that the possibility of EU economies taking a serious hit from Brexit will incentivize the bloc.

02 June 2017 • 13:33 AMT
RusHydro negotiating sale of Sevan-Hrazdan Hydro Power Plant Cascade

The Sevan-Hrazdan Hydro Power Plant Cascade includes seven derivative hydro power plants on Armenia’s Hrazdan River.

02 June 2017 • 13:17 AMT
Lorde rolls out her latest single, “Perfect Places”

Lorde recently revealed that the next song to be unveiled from “Melodrama” is the best thing she’s ever written and “sounds like nothing else she’s ever done”.

02 June 2017 • 13:06 AMT
Radiohead share previously unreleased “OK Computer” track

“I Promise” is one of the three previously unreleased tracks set to feature on the remastered album.

02 June 2017 • 12:38 AMT
Netflix nabs British coming-of-age comedy “Amar Akbar & Tony”

The film, directed by Atul Malhotra, stars Rez Kempton as a Sikh, Sam Vincenti as a Muslim, and Martin Delaney as an Irish Catholic.

02 June 2017 • 12:28 AMT
“Out Stealing Horses” hit novel to get film treatment

Set in 1999, “Out Stealing Horses” tells the story of a 67-year old man who has moved to a remote house in the forest where he can grieve the death of his wife.

02 June 2017 • 12:11 AMT
Kabul demonstration turns violent as protesters demand better security

More than 1,000 people demonstrated as Afghans mourned the victims of a massive truck bomb that also wounded more than 450.

02 June 2017 • 12:04 AMT
Wrong remains found in Polish ex-president’s coffin

The disaster happened near Smolensk in western Russia, as the government plane was coming in to land in thick fog.

02 June 2017 • 11:38 AMT
Amazon rolling out upgrades for Alexa

While these features are exclusively available in the U.S. at the moment, Amazon promises to release them in the UK and in Germany in the coming weeks.

02 June 2017 • 11:29 AMT
Snap’s camera-equipped Spectacles arrive in Europe

Snap says those people buying the Spectacles from the vending machines will be able to virtually try on the glasses, using the machine’s inbuilt video camera.