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18 September 2014 • 14:43 AMT
U.S. Senate says Chinese hackers attacked military contractors

The latest report found that U.S. government agencies had failed to share the information about the attacks among themselves.

18 September 2014 • 13:07 AMT
European Parliament urges sanctions over Azeri violations of human rights

EP issued a resolution condemning deteriorating human rights climate in Azerbaijan and escalation of government repression.

18 September 2014 • 12:41 AMT
Armenian Genocide survivor’s daughter publishes father’s story

“That law remains in the archives of Turkish history, all other records of the period were systematically expunged,” Chesnut says.

18 September 2014 • 12:17 AMT
World’s billionaire population at all-time high

Sixty-five percent of female billionaires are married, 10 percent divorced, 4 percent single and 21 percent widowed.

18 September 2014 • 12:10 AMT
Mackenzie Davis to join Matt Damon in Ridley Scott sci-fi “The Martian”

Damon will star as an astronaut who becomes stranded on Mars and must figure out how to survive long enough to return home to Earth.

18 September 2014 • 11:56 AMT
Daniel Rigby to infiltrate Armenian crime family in “Undercover” comedy

Rigby plays the neurotic central character who finds himself attracted to both the femme fatale of the Sarkissian family and his police handler.

18 September 2014 • 11:34 AMT
Aubrey Plaza lends voice to Grumpy Cat in “Worst Christmas Ever”

Lifetime’s TV movie follows a pet-store cat that is perpetually overlooked and the 12-year-old girl, Chrystal, who can communicate with her.

18 September 2014 • 11:21 AMT
Inception Media picks up Gérard Depardieu, Elizabeth Hurley’s “Viktor”

In the film, a man consumed by the guilt of his son’s murder in Moscow, he enters the Russian underworld on a mission of vengeance.

18 September 2014 • 10:58 AMT
Toshiba cutting its PC workforce, sales bases

The revised approach calls for growing business-to-business sales to over 50% of all sales in the company’s 2016 fiscal year.

18 September 2014 • 10:41 AMT
Apple chief executive defends firm’s privacy stance

Cook also reiterated Apple’s statement that it has had no involvement with any U.S. govt. data-gathering schemes, such as PRISM.

18 September 2014 • 10:25 AMT
Libya’s elected parliament rejects PM’s new cabinet

Lawmakers demanded Thinni submit a new cabinet with not more than ten ministers, spokesman Faraj Hashim said.

18 September 2014 • 10:18 AMT
Poroshenko due in U.S. to seek support to resolve crisis

Both the U.S. and the EU have recently imposed a new round of sanctions against Russia over its role in the Ukraine crisis.

18 September 2014 • 10:06 AMT
Hyundai offers over $10bn for land in Seoul’s tony district

Hyundai Motor has 18,000 employees in Seoul but its current headquarters in southern Gangnam can accommodate just 5,000 people.

18 September 2014 • 09:39 AMT
Air France cancels over 70% of flights to Russia over strike

To passengers stuck at airports, the company is providing hotel accommodation, meals and, in some cases, compensation payments.

18 September 2014 • 09:15 AMT
Islamic State seizes Syrian villages at Turkish border: Kurdish commander

Ocalan Iso said that IS fighters were using heavy weapons including tanks in their attack near the city, known as Kobani in Kurdish.

18 September 2014 • 09:02 AMT
Genocide, Karabakh: Yerevan, Baku envoy nominees’ U.S. Senate hearings

While noting that there can be no military solution, neither nominee commented on Azeri attacks against Armenia and Karabakh.

18 September 2014 • 08:37 AMT
Iran-downed Israeli spy drone took off from Nakhijevan: sources

The revelation about the Israeli drone’s launch site indicates Baku’s involvement in the spying mission, the unnamed sources claimed.

18 September 2014 • 08:16 AMT
Karabakh serviceman killed in Azeri sniper attack

The soldier received a lethal injury in the southern of the line of contact between the armed forces of Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

18 September 2014 • 07:58 AMT
Jason Reitman’s “Men, Women & Children” unveils new trailer

The film previously released a teaser trailer about people who have lost physical interaction yet keep themselves connected through technology.

18 September 2014 • 07:40 AMT
Focus World nabs Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton dramedy “Ruth & Alex”

“Ruth & Alex” tells the story of a couple grappling with whether to sell their Brooklyn walk-up after 40 years.

18 September 2014 • 07:31 AMT
Channing Tatum eying math prodigy role in “Struck by Genius”

Tatum just got off “22 Jump Street” with Jonah Hill and will next share screen with Mila Kunis in “Jupiter Ascending”.

18 September 2014 • 07:23 AMT
Barbra Streisand set for 10th No. 1 album on Billboard 200

The set, which was released on Sept. 16, may sell over 150,000 copies in the week ending Sept. 21, according to industry forecasters.

18 September 2014 • 06:49 AMT
Facebook developing new app for private sharing: report

It’s not clear whether Facebook will eventually make the app available to the public, as some experiments are scrapped later down the line.

18 September 2014 • 06:46 AMT
Amazon updates Kindle range with four tablets & two e-readers

Amazon claims that the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 now has one million more pixels than the iPad Air, with 339ppi.

18 September 2014 • 06:32 AMT
Voting underway in Scotland’s independence referendum

With 4,285,323 people – 97% of the electorate – registered to vote, a historically high turnout is expected.

18 September 2014 • 06:24 AMT
Turkey mulls “buffer zone” against Islamic militants: Erdogan

NATO member Turkey has not committed to an alliance coalition announced this month to take on the Islamic State group.

18 September 2014 • 06:17 AMT
U.S. sanctions “end in themselves,” Iran FM says as nuke talks resume

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers the aim was to reach a deal under which “any pathway to a bomb will be eliminated.”

18 September 2014 • 06:05 AMT
Police raids were to prevent IS-planned beheading, Australia PM says

Abbott said there was a “serious risk from a terrorist attack” days after Australia raised its national terror threat level to “high”.

17 September 2014 • 18:15 AMT
Iraqi forces launch intense military operation against IS

Security sources said the Iraqi Army’s 8th division hit areas in western Ramadi with mortars, artillery and rocket fire.

17 September 2014 • 18:04 AMT
Two suicide bombers kill at least 15 at Nigerian college

Spokesman Sani Datti of the Nigerian Emergency Management Agency said the bombers also died, making the total death toll 17.