The book was adapted into a 1996 film starring Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock and Samuel L. Jackson.

Customers reacted angrily when they discovered that pre-installed software takes up more than 50% of the handset’s on-board memory.

Earnings rose 7% over the year to $219 mln, despite being crunched by massive expenses;
costs jumped 60% over the year to $1.08 bn.

A single fast food manager finally finds love with the perfect woman, but there’s a catch – she’s married and wants him to kill her husband.

The epic action-adventure film takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan.

For the more than 4 million users who downloaded the app, Astrid will continue to work as it is for the next 90 days.

Lending Club connects borrowers and lenders through its website and facilitates lower-cost loans between the parties.

Marriott doesn’t own most of the hotels in its system but makes money off either managing or franchising its 18 brands.

Only 10 percent of those surveyed in the online poll said the United States should intervene in the fighting.

North Korea has arrested several U.S. citizens in recent years, including journalists and Christians accused of proselytism.

“We are very supportive of Georgia’s aspirations with respect to NATO and Europe,” U.S. Secretary of State says.

No further details about those detained have been released, but police did say there was no threat to public safety.

Hugo Chavez, 58, died on March 5 after a long battle with cancer, much of it fought in Cuba under the care of Cuban doctors.

Durbin made her film debut in the 1936 MGM short Every Sunday, in which she appeared alongside Judy Garland.

Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian (Brazil) scored 3,5 points after 5 rounds at the World Championship Zonal 2.4 Tournament.

Though Boris Gelfand scored the same number of points, Aronian won the tournament by additional points.

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will visit Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh Republic) on May 2.

Gelfand tied a game against India’s Viswanathan Anand, with Peter Svidler vs Laurent Fressinet game also ending in a draw.

Heritage party member Zaruhi Postanjyan described Armenia as a state built on ruins of the Soviet Union.

Markets will also be paying attention to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy statement to be released later in the day.

Raffi Hovannisian: I am ready to continue the struggle. Taron Margaryan won’t be reelected to the post of Yerevan mayor.

Another six ships of the Pacific Fleet are on the way to the Mediterranean and expected to join the task force later this month.

The Alexanians have big plans for the film and hope to show it in movie theaters, film festivals, television and international broadcasts.

The CDU/CSU’s coalition partners, the Free Democrats (FDP), were unchanged at five percent for a total of 44 percent.

Saint Hovhannes Armenian church was demolished in Turkey, with an Islamic school and a hostel to be built on the site.

Stepan Safaryan: Hello Yerevan bloc of parties has nominated worthy candidates for the upcoming Yerevan city council polls.

At least 14 people were killed in the blast. It was the second attack in the heart of the capital, Assad’s seat of power, in two days.

One of the attacks, a roadside bomb targeting a federal police convoy, killed at least four policemen in Baiji.

Le Guen, a former merchant seaman, is originally from the city of Nantes in western France. He converted to Islam in 1985.

The Islamist insurgency, once confined largely to the republic of Chechnya, has spread across the North Caucasus in recent years.