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16 January 2013 • 11:17 AMT
Apple reportedly cuts orders of iPhone 5 screens

Apple reduced its orders last month for iPhone 5 screens for the first quarter of 2013 by around half its original target.

16 January 2013 • 11:15 AMT
SXSW Fest to premiere Steve Carell, Jim Carrey’s “Burt Wonderstone”

“The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,” about a pair of Las Vegas magicians who face off against a new rival, is directed by Don Scardino.

16 January 2013 • 11:05 AMT
Dotcom’s new Mega service ads pulled from radio

Dotcom was going to advertise his new Mega service, which opens this week, across some 500 radio stations.

16 January 2013 • 11:02 AMT
Robert Rodriguez-directed “Machete Kills” to be released in Sept

Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the U.S. President to take down a madman revolutionary.

16 January 2013 • 10:49 AMT
Mitsubishi invests $770mln in German offshore wind farms

Linking the wind farms, some of which are more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) offshore, to electrical grids is costly.

16 January 2013 • 10:48 AMT
Georgian PM to visit Armenia January 17

Meetings with President Serzh Sargsyan, PM Tigran Sargsyan, and other high-ranking officials are on Ivanishvil’s visit agenda.

16 January 2013 • 10:33 AMT
Center for hearing-impaired children to be built in Yerevan

The govt. of Armenia will provide Yerevan My Love Foundation with a ground area of 1005 square meters for construction of 3 buildings.

16 January 2013 • 10:07 AMT
Turkish, U.S. officials discuss Syria, Iran

State Department spokesperson said they had talked about Syria, Iraq and the importance of international solidarity.

16 January 2013 • 10:06 AMT
Petrosian leading Armenian Chess Championship after round 4

After round 4, Avetik Grigoryan is 2nd with 3 points, followed by Zaven Andriasian and Robert Hovhannisyan.

16 January 2013 • 09:53 AMT
Incumbent president’s election program to be released Jan 19 – paper

Presented at the last RPA congress, Serzh Sargsyan’s election program was amended and made ready to print, the daily said.

16 January 2013 • 09:47 AMT
Another Russian Defense Ministry official arrested in fraud probe

“The investigators considered that he could impede the investigation or flee,” court spokeswoman Darya Lyakh said.

16 January 2013 • 09:40 AMT
Anand beats Aronian in Tata Steel round 4

Magnus Carlsen is leading the tournament with 3 points, followed by Viswanathan Anand and Sergey Karjakin.

16 January 2013 • 09:35 AMT
Helicopter crashes into crane in central London

The fire brigade was also attending a second scene involving a crane in a precarious position on St George’s Wharf.

16 January 2013 • 09:30 AMT
No Armenians among Aleppo University blasts victims – report

Twin blasts inside a university campus set cars on fire, blew walls off dormitory rooms and left more than 80 people dead.

16 January 2013 • 09:19 AMT
Israeli watchdog blasts Netanyahu’s settlement policy

Watchdog: Netanyahu’s policy during his four-year term shows intent to make a Palestinian state impossible to create.

16 January 2013 • 09:17 AMT
2 tons of illegal elephant ivory seized at Kenyan port

The seizure comes more than a week after 11 elephants were killed in a Kenyan park and their tusks chopped off.

16 January 2013 • 09:09 AMT
“Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown’s new novel release date set

With two books – “The Lost Symbol” and “Da Vinci Code” – as no. 1 bestsellers, “Inferno” will have an initial printing of four million copies.

16 January 2013 • 08:29 AMT
Large explosion, gunfire reported outside Kabul police HQ

First reports located the explosion close to the area housing the national intelligence headquarters and the interior ministry.

16 January 2013 • 08:24 AMT
Freedom House report names NKR “partly free” country

The NKR used to be included in the reports of Freedom House and was generally assessed as “partly free”.

16 January 2013 • 08:20 AMT
At least 10 killed in Iraqi suicide bomb attack

A suicide bomber in a truck detonated his explosives outside a Kurdish party office in Kirkuk, security officials said.

16 January 2013 • 08:16 AMT
Somali militants sentence French hostage to death

Al Shabaab said in a statement the decision to kill Denis Allex, held hostage in Somalia since 2009, was unanimous.

16 January 2013 • 08:07 AMT
Serbia says Russian gas price “too high”

Russia is the main supplier of natural gas to Serbia. Russia’s energy giant Gazprom delivered 1.4 billion cubic meters of gas to Serbia in 2011.

16 January 2013 • 07:59 AMT
Iconoclastic filmmaker Nagisa Oshima dies at 80

Oshima’s 1976 movie “In Realms of the Senses,” based on a famous Bobbit-like murder during the run up to World War II is best remembered.

16 January 2013 • 07:46 AMT
Metallica’s 3D film to hit theaters in August

“Metallica Through The Never” will star Dane DeHaan, who’s recently landed a role as Harry Osborn in “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.”

16 January 2013 • 07:44 AMT
Alcatel gets $1bn contract with India’s Reliance Communications

Alcatel-Lucent currently operates a joint venture with Reliance Communications to manage the Indian carrier’s network.

16 January 2013 • 07:40 AMT
January 16 marks The Beatles day

On January 16, 1957, Liverpool has opened the Cavern club, where The Beatles debuted, signaling the launch of the legendary band.

16 January 2013 • 07:37 AMT
U.S. power companies report malware infections

An outside technician used a USB drive to upload software updates during equipment upgrades, ICS-CERT said.

16 January 2013 • 07:33 AMT
Oil prices up ahead of U.S. industrial production data release

“They are up a little, but broadly they are still trading pretty well where they were last week and within that range,” Spooner said.

16 January 2013 • 07:29 AMT
India reviewing safety situation of Boeing Dreamliners

“We are not having any problem with our Dreamliners. The problems we had earlier were fixed,” said Arun Mishra.

16 January 2013 • 07:28 AMT
Emma Stone to headline Guillermo del Toro’s “Crimson Peak” thriller?

Del Toro recently served as the executive producer for Andres Muschietti’s horror pic “Mama”, which stars Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain.