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10 April 2017 • 07:41 AMT
Tool tease long-awaited new album

The band’s first album in over ten years – since 2006’s ’10,000 Days’ – is widely expected to come out in 2017 after much delay.

10 April 2017 • 07:34 AMT
Great Barrier Reef has “zero prospect” of recovery in bleaching

Researchers said last month they were detecting another round of mass bleaching this year after a severe event in 2016.

10 April 2017 • 07:17 AMT
G7 foreign ministers seek clarity from U.S. over Syria

The meeting will give them a chance to grill Tillerson on whether U.S. is committed to overthrowing Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

10 April 2017 • 07:09 AMT
Situation on Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line relatively calm overnight

Around 30 ceasefire violations by Azerbaijan were registered in the reporting period, with more than 250 shots fired overall.

10 April 2017 • 07:06 AMT
Laura Poitras’ Julian Assange doc “Risk” lands at Showtime

Poitras’ last, Edward Snowden starrer CitizenFour, nabbed the 2015 Oscar for best documentary after a brief theatrical run and a wider release on HBO.

10 April 2017 • 06:59 AMT
Development of Hugh Hefner bio relaunched with Brett Ratner

Ratner was attached a decade ago to direct a Hefner movie with Imagine Entertainment. Earlier, Amazon Prime launched “American Playboy,” a 13-part documentary series on Hefner.

10 April 2017 • 06:54 AMT
Suspect in Stockholm attack an IS sympathiser who “partied and drank”

Swedish dailies Expressen and Aftonbladet meanwhile named the man as Rakhmat Akilov and published his picture on April 9.

10 April 2017 • 06:50 AMT
China offers concessions to avert trade war with U.S. – FT

China will offer the Trump administration better market access for financial sector investments and U.S. beef exports to help avert a trade war.

10 April 2017 • 06:42 AMT
Crime thriller “Trivisa” bags 5 wins at Hong Kong Film Awards

The Johnnie To and Yau Nai-hoi-produced film swept the best film, best director, best screenplay, and best film editing categories.

10 April 2017 • 06:37 AMT
South Europe leaders to seek stronger EU after Brexit

Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy and the leaders of France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta will gather at El Pardo palace outside Madrid.

10 April 2017 • 06:33 AMT
Scarlett Johansson’s “Ghost in the Shell” tops foreign box office

“Ghost in the Shell” received a social media shellacking for the producers’ decision to cast Johansson in a role originally written for an Asian performer.

10 April 2017 • 06:25 AMT
Alec Baldwin animation “The Boss Baby” retains box office lead

Sitting at No. 2 was “Beauty and the Beast (2017)”. Internationally, “Beauty and the Beast” earned an estimated total of $977.4 million.

10 April 2017 • 06:24 AMT
Trump reportedly considering trade order that could lead to duties

The Axios news website earlier quoted an official saying such an executive order would likely target steel and aluminum.

10 April 2017 • 06:11 AMT
Egypt declares state of emergency after IS church bombings kill 44

Egyptian officials denounced the violence as an attempt to sow divisions, and Francis sent his “deep condolences” to Tawadros.

08 April 2017 • 20:31 AMT
Tsarukyan bloc next force to refuse to run in Yerevan elections

“It’s impossible to offer a serious development plan to the residents of Yerevan in such a short period of time,” the bloc said in a statement.

08 April 2017 • 14:44 AMT
From sundials to wristwatches

People often complain about the lack of time. Indeed, for many of us having 24 hours in a day is not enough to sleep, eat, work and have a rest. To orient in time, humanity invented the clock, a unique device that went through a lot of transformations from huge stone discs to tiny watches.

08 April 2017 • 14:12 AMT
Gina Carano joins Jason Mewes’ meta movie “Madness in the Method”

Described as a “meta movie,” the story is a dark comedy that tells of an actor named Jason Mewes attempting to reinvent himself in Hollywood.

08 April 2017 • 14:07 AMT
Armenia’s ORO won’t run in Yerevan elections after unsuccessful NA vote

The alliance failed to collect enough votes to overcome the threshold at the parliamentary elections, held across Armenia on April 2.

08 April 2017 • 14:06 AMT
The Orchard, Topic nab SXSW-winning prison therapy doc “The Work”

“The Work,” an immersive film shot entirely inside Folsom Prison, captures group therapy sessions that put members of the public alongside convicts.

08 April 2017 • 13:33 AMT
Lifter Simon Martirosyan wins gold at European Championships

Vasil Gospodinov of Bulgaria and Arkadiusz Michalski of Poland claimed silver and bronze, respectively.

08 April 2017 • 13:19 AMT
Boris Johnson cancels Russia trip just hours before take-off

Johnson had been due to hold talks with Sergey Lavrov, his counterpart as Russian foreign minister, after flying out on Sunday.

08 April 2017 • 13:15 AMT
Lionsgate in talks to acquire sci-fi story “The Punch Escrow”

The deal will cross the seven-figure mark, an astonishing sum for first-time author whose book has yet to be published.

08 April 2017 • 13:07 AMT
Oscar-nommed Juliette Lewis joins YA adaptation “Anthem”

Lewis was most recently seen in thriller “Nerve” with Emma Roberts and currently stars on the ABC TV series “Secrets and Lies.”

08 April 2017 • 13:06 AMT
Iran’s Rouhani says Trump abetting Syria ‘terrorists’ with missile strike

He backed calls for an independent inquiry into a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria.

08 April 2017 • 12:54 AMT
TP-Link smart bulbs now allow color changes through Alexa

The “skill” puts Alexa on par with Google Home, which has been able to change smart bulb colors from day one.

08 April 2017 • 12:52 AMT
Opposition MP Zaruhi Postanjyan seeks Yerevan mayor’s position

“Our aim is to make the mayor’s responsible and obliging post serve the Armenian people,” the party said in a statement.

08 April 2017 • 12:39 AMT
Fresh protests break out in Gaza after Palestinian pay cut

Israel has maintained a blockade of Gaza for a decade, severely damaging the enclave’s economy.

08 April 2017 • 12:36 AMT
Monitor says air strike kills at least 15 people near Raqqa

The air strike took place at Hanida, some 30 km (20 miles) west of Raqqa on the southern bank of the Euphrates River, the Observatory said.

08 April 2017 • 12:29 AMT
Panic, damage as three earthquakes hit Philippines

There were no immediate reports of casualties from the quakes, the strongest of which hit the coast close to Mabini.

08 April 2017 • 12:10 AMT
ARFD won’t run for Yerevan city hall, unhappy with NA election results

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation – Dashnaktsutyun declared that it won’t run for Yerevan City Council due to “unexpectedly low results.”