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14 January 2015 • 11:01 AMT
Mumford & Sons, Deadmau5 among Bonnaroo Fest headliners

Other notable names in the line-up include Earth, Wind & Fire, Tears for Fears, Hozier, Tove Lo, Robert Plant, Flying Lotus.

14 January 2015 • 10:42 AMT
EU faces growing threat of Islamist fighters returning from Syria: Europol

Europeans flocked to Syria, in numbers unprecedented, and IS and the other groups have been able to absorb them with relative ease.

14 January 2015 • 10:41 AMT
Björk announces her ninth album, “Vulnicura”

The album’s song titles are typically speckled with science and nature-references, such as Lionsong, Atom Dance and Quicksand.

14 January 2015 • 10:25 AMT
Commissioner: over 276,000 irregular migrants entered EU in 2014

In 2014, more than 276,000 migrants arrived in the EU, representing an increase of 138 percent compared to the previous year.

14 January 2015 • 10:04 AMT
Samsung launches first Tizen smartphone to break from Android

The vast majority of Samsung’s popular devices, including its flagship Galaxy S smartphones, use the Android operating system.

14 January 2015 • 09:51 AMT
France seeks more support from tech firms to track terror threats

11 EU interior ministers called on major Internet providers to swiftly report and remove material that could “incite hatred and terror.”

14 January 2015 • 08:51 AMT
Disney Studios announces release date for new films

The new slot for “Jungle Book” will still keep it ahead of the release of Warner Bros.’ live-action “The Jungle Book: Origins.”

14 January 2015 • 08:33 AMT
Alchemy nabs Anthony Hopkins crime thriller “Kidnapping Mr. Heineken”

The screenplay is based on Peter R. de Vries’ book, which has been on top of the Netherlands bestsellers list for more than two decades.

14 January 2015 • 08:26 AMT
9.1% of Turks believe govt. must apologize for Armenian Genocide: poll

12 percent said the government should express its regret for the Armenians who lost their lives in 1915 but not apologize.

14 January 2015 • 08:18 AMT
“Many Wars Ago” Berlinale screening to commemorate Francesco Rosi

Rosi, winner of Cannes’ Palme d’Or in 1972 for The Mattei Affair and the Golden Lion in Venice for Hands Over City in 1963, died Jan 10.

14 January 2015 • 08:05 AMT
Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater nommed for Directors Guild Award

Linklater whose film “Boyhood” won best film and earned him best directing at the Golden Globes is a DGA first-timer.

14 January 2015 • 07:57 AMT
Armenian communities across East Asia gather in Bangkok

Henri Arslanian, President of the Armenian Community of China, updated the attendees on the various regional initiatives taking place.

14 January 2015 • 07:49 AMT
Woody Allen’s first TV series to premiere on Amazon

The Untitled Woody Allen Project, a half-hour series, has received a full season order with episodes written and directed by Allen.

14 January 2015 • 07:42 AMT
Alibaba takes majority stake in China’s digital marketing platform

Alibaba is often described as the Chinese version of eBay, and like the U.S. company has its own payments system.

14 January 2015 • 07:39 AMT
Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling to star in “The Big Short”

The film tells the story of the build-up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s that led to the financial crisis of 2007-2010.

14 January 2015 • 07:21 AMT
Rodrigo Santoro to portray Christ in MGM’s “Ben-Hur” remake

Jack Huston is starring as the Jewish prince who is betrayed into slavery by his onetime friend, Messala, played by Toby Kebbell.

14 January 2015 • 07:19 AMT
Ben Affleck, David Fincher to reunite for “Strangers on a Train” remake

The Alfred Hitchcock classic centers on two strangers, one of whom is a tennis star, who meet on a train and discuss the idea of exchanging murders.

14 January 2015 • 07:06 AMT
Microsoft slams Google for exposing security flaw

The computing giant’s security chief Chris Betz said that the search engine firm’s actions were more about one-upmanship than “principles”.

14 January 2015 • 07:02 AMT
Samsung “readying Galaxy J1 budget smartphone to take on Moto G”

The device is said to feature a 4.3-inch 800×480-resolution screen, a 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core Marvell PXA1908 processor and 1GB of RAM.

14 January 2015 • 06:29 AMT
World Bank downsizes global growth forecast

“The global economy is running on a single engine…The American one. This does not make for a rosy outlook,” chief economist warned.

14 January 2015 • 06:16 AMT
Fourth ship set to join search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane

Dutch engineering firm Fugro has deployed three vessels to map and then search the sea floor in the area.

14 January 2015 • 06:08 AMT
Charlie Hebdo publishes new issue featuring Prophet Muhammad

Three million copies are being printed – a week after Islamist gunmen murdered eight journalists at the magazine and four other people in Paris.

14 January 2015 • 05:58 AMT
UN aid chief urges more intervention in humanitarian emergencies

Amos cited Syria as an example after the UN Security Council had to adopt two resolutions to authorize the delivery of aid.

13 January 2015 • 17:03 AMT
GM says open to work with Google to make self-driving cars

“You have to figure out how would something like that actually work,” Lauckner said in an interview at the Detroit auto show.

13 January 2015 • 16:50 AMT
Facebook starts restricting violent videos, photos

The scheme applies to graphic material reported to the firm by its users that is judged to have been posted in an irresponsible manner.

13 January 2015 • 14:57 AMT
Matthew McConaughey’s audition vid for “Dazed and Confused” lands online

The “True Detective” star plays David Wooderson in “Dazed and Confused” which was released in 1993.

13 January 2015 • 14:38 AMT
“Game of Thrones” star to join Tina Fey in “Taliban Shuffle” black comedy

The film will adapt Kim Barker’s memoir. It centres around her adventures as a war journalist travelling between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

13 January 2015 • 14:20 AMT
“Nobody Wants the Night” period drama traielr features Juliette Binoche

Set in 1908, it is based on the true story of Arctic adventurer Robert Peary and the two women who love him.

13 January 2015 • 13:59 AMT
Author Gillian Flynn hints at “Gone Girl” sequel

“Gone Girl” tells the story of a man named who is accused of murdering his wife. Affleck plays the husband in the book-based film.

13 January 2015 • 13:30 AMT
Armenian resort town hosts Winter Wiki Camp

The participants of Winter Wiki Camp boosted the Armenian Wikipedia from the 42nd to the 41st place in global ranking.