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27 March 2013 • 05:57 AMT
Oil prices slip after strong day of gains

The U.S. Commerce Department said that orders for factory-produced durable goods rose more than expected in February.

27 March 2013 • 05:47 AMT
Suzuki to stop selling cars in Canada after model year 2014

Suzuki held roughly same market share as Volvo at 0.3% of overall sales in the country in 2012, DesRosiers’ figures show.

27 March 2013 • 05:42 AMT
Google forces removal of ‘ungoogleable’ from Swedish word list

“I don’t want to be influenced by a company, but this was the only way to solve the problem,” Ms Cederberg said.

27 March 2013 • 05:28 AMT
North Korea warns South’s new leader to ‘watch her tongue’

North Korea has made no secret of its hatred for Park and earlier this month referred to the “venomous swish” of her skirt.

27 March 2013 • 05:23 AMT
Strong quake jolts Taiwan, 20 injured

The U.S. Geological Survey placed the magnitude at 6. The quake’s depth was a relatively shallow 15 kilometers.

26 March 2013 • 18:23 AMT
Armenia 0 Czech Republic 3 in World Cup qualifier

The Armenian and Czech national teams started the second half of the 2014 World Cup qualifier with a 0-0 score.

26 March 2013 • 17:48 AMT
Brady Corbet joins Benicio Del Toro in “Paradise Lost” drug kingpin drama

The drama is about notorious drug kingpin Pablo Escobar and it was written and marks the directing debut of Andrea di Stefano.

26 March 2013 • 17:31 AMT
Armenia 0 – 0 Czech Republic in 1st halftime of World Cup qualifier

At the Yerevan-hosted game, Armenians got off to a decent start as they looked to take the game to the Czechs.

26 March 2013 • 17:16 AMT
Expert: authorities won’t compromise over Hovannisian suggestions

“One cannot use a hunger strike to create a serious political force,” political analyst Alexander Iskandaryan said.

26 March 2013 • 17:04 AMT
Kick Gurry joins “Matrix” helmers’ “Jupiter Ascending” sci-fi thriller

Gurry was offered the role by the Wachowskis when he was in London shooting Doug Liman’s “All You Need Is Kill” with Tom Cruise.

26 March 2013 • 16:55 AMT
Bank of Cyprus head quits over bailout deal

The new deal will force the holders of accounts of over 100,000 euros to take losses that may amount to 30-40 percent of their deposits.

26 March 2013 • 16:37 AMT
Vial of deadly virus missing at Texas lab

The medical branch says the virus, native to Venezuela, is transmitted only through contact with Venezuelan rats.

26 March 2013 • 16:28 AMT
Russia may use new ISS modules to build own space station

Russia’s Federal Space Agency announced plans to build a low-orbit space station to support future exploration of the Moon and Mars in 2009.

26 March 2013 • 16:13 AMT
Italian FM resigns over marines murder trial in India

Mario Monti’s caretaker government reversed a decision not to send the marines back to face trial for the murder of two Indian fisherman.

26 March 2013 • 15:59 AMT
Prominent Egyptian blogger hands himself in to authorities

Activists say the accusations against blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah may herald a wave of arrests of opposition leaders.

26 March 2013 • 15:43 AMT
UK House of Commons hosts Karabakh movement 25th anniv. event

NKR Deputy FM Felix Khachatryan and the director of the Regional Studies Center Richard Giragosian delivered lectures at the event.

26 March 2013 • 15:25 AMT
Car bomb reportedly explodes in Syrian capital

Syria TV said the blast was set off by a suicide car bomber in the district of Rukn al-Din. Neither side offered a death toll from the blast.

26 March 2013 • 15:25 AMT
“Lord Of The Rings” trilogy joins 10 greatest movie epics list

Other movies in the top 10 include Apocalypse Now (1979), Ben-Hur (1959), Spartacus (1960) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).

26 March 2013 • 15:22 AMT
China’s two largest banks post slowest profit growth

The central bank said banks would be allowed for the first time to pay depositors up to 1.1 times the state-set rate.

26 March 2013 • 15:13 AMT
Defense Ministry refutes Azeri repots of Armenian deaths

Azeri Defense Ministry made yet another attempt to shift the death of a soldier onto alleged ceasefire violations at contact line.

26 March 2013 • 15:09 AMT
Russia plans to put 68 spacecraft into orbit by 2015

Malchenko said Russia will also increase the number of D33 remote sensing satellites from four to 26 by 2020.

26 March 2013 • 15:03 AMT
MP downplays Azeri pressure over Lithuania-NKR friendship group

“Azeri threats forced a parliamentarian into leaving the group, but no one else is going to leave,” Dalia Kuodyte said.

26 March 2013 • 14:39 AMT
NATO says no intention of military intervention in Syria

Three NATO countries have sent Patriot surface-to-air missile batteries to Turkey to protect its cities from possible attack.

26 March 2013 • 14:34 AMT
“Hanna” star Saoirse Ronan talks her role in “The Host”

The film takes place in an alternative future where the majority of the race has been taken over by aliens known as Souls.

26 March 2013 • 14:33 AMT
Saudi Arabia says arrested spy ring worked for Iran

The ministry said security authorities had arrested an 18-member spy ring, including an Iranian, a Lebanese and 16 Saudis.

26 March 2013 • 14:24 AMT
The Weinstein Company picks up Nicole Kidman’s “Grace of Monaco”

The film focuses on Kelly’s marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco and a dispute between the prince and French leader Charles De Gaulle.

26 March 2013 • 14:16 AMT
TNK-BP shares plummet on Rosneft loan plans

State-controlled Rosneft paid $27.7 billion in cash to the AAR consortium of Soviet-born billionaires for their half of TNK-BP.

26 March 2013 • 14:07 AMT
Millennium, Gravitas nab “End of Love,” “Hunky Dory” indies

The deal also includes Guy Pierce drama “33 Posters,” directed by Pauline Chan, as well as the Millennium title “Hell Baby.”

26 March 2013 • 14:03 AMT
Egypt extradites two Gaddafi regime members to Libya

Libya wants Mansour for fraud and Gaddaf Alddam for counterfeiting, forgery, fraud and money laundering, according to Interpol’s website.

26 March 2013 • 13:53 AMT
Magnitude-5.5 quake jolts Mexico City

The earthquake caused buildings to sway in the capital, sending thousands fleeing into the streets as an earthquake alarm sounded.