The attacks on Christians in the area, which started on Feb 23, are Islamic State’s retaliation for recent battlefield setbacks.

The sci-fi film script follows a UN worker tasked to represent humankind if aliens ever made contact with Earthlings.

The role was originally set to be played by Philip Seymour Hoffman before it was recast following his death.

Writer-director Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi movie knocked off Will Smith‘s caper comedy “Focus,” which was second with $9.7 million.

Based on autobiography of the same title, the film received rave reviews from critics and was nominated for multiple awards at the Oscars.

Tony Tyler said that governments and the industry should find ways to reduce the risk of over-flying conflict zones.

The situation at the line of contact between the armed forces of the Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan remained strained throughout the week.

The film will tell the story of a “19-year-old private Billy Lynn and his company, who survive a harrowing battle that’s captured by news cameras.

Renner will play a physics professor paired by the government with the linguist to help communicate with the aliens.

Mahmoud Hassan Ramadan was hanged in relation to an incident where children were thrown from a building during riots.

It was the 12th month running that the economy added more than 200,000 jobs, the longest such run since 1994.

“To date, we have made progress, but there do remain serious gaps, and those need to be resolved,” U.S. Secretary of State said.

Recognition and repentance, along with elimination of dire consequences, is the right way forward for the Turkish government.

Unlike the R8 e-tron, the EV will be positioned as a standalone model that will feature a design of its own inside and out.

China aims to become a dominant force in the international nuclear market, and is developing its own-brand reactors.

“There are a lot of areas that I would like to have better insight to, better information about, better access to,” Brennan said.

The novel follows a man whose youngest daughter is abducted during a family vacation, with all evidence leading to her having been murdered.

The video sees a priest and a cardinal who review films of exorcisms in the Vatican’s video archives to find out the devil’s master plan.

Data is sent via a Bluetooth transmitter found in the Smart Rope’s handle, which not only counts jumps but also tracks the number of calories burnt.

The large-screen iPad was originally tipped to break cover alongside the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 in October 2014.

The Beethoven Frieze was looted by the Nazis but returned to the family of Jewish industrialist August Lederer after World War Two.

Vincent Van Gogh, most known for “Starry Night” and losing his left ear, may have left one final secret up his sleeve.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his German counterpart Franck-Walter Steinmeier urged the OSCE to “ramp up” its mission.

They noted that Iran has withstood extreme fluctuations in crude prices before and that sanctions have blunted the effect of oil on its economy.

Meanwhile, IS was widely condemned after it bulldozed the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq.

Bashar Ja’afari insisted that keeping Assad, who was re-elected last year in a poll his foes regard as illegitimate, was the only path to peace and unity.

This indicates Ukraine has prepaid for gas until mid-month. Gazprom said it also received $15mln from Ukrainian state energy firm Naftogaz.

Mogherini said that “what Ukraine needs now is not only the full respect of its sovereignty, of its territorial integrity, but it is also peace.”

“We are in favor of a solid agreement … for now there remain difficulties,” Laurent Fabius told reporters in Riga.

Next week a court is due to review his acquittal for paying for sex with an underage prostitute, which could mean a retrial for Berlusconi.