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08 August 2012 • 13:23 AMT
Misha Aloyan reaches Olympic boxing semifinals

Misha Aloyan (52 kg) scored 23:13 win against Puerto Rico’s Javier Cintron to make it to the Olympic semifinal.

08 August 2012 • 13:10 AMT
“Match Point” star Jonathan Rhys Meyers to join “Mortal Instruments”

Rhys Meyers will play Valentine Morgenstern, described as powerful but insane Shadowhunter looking to make the world pure at any cost.

08 August 2012 • 13:07 AMT
Armenia drops 56th in FIFA rankings

Italy comes 6th with 1192 points, Denmark is 10th with 1017 points, Czech Republic has dropped to the 19th position.

08 August 2012 • 13:01 AMT
Scientology-inspired “The Master” added to Venice Film Fest line-up

Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as a man who invents a belief system which soars in popularity, and it is regarded as reference to Scientology.

08 August 2012 • 12:52 AMT
Russia hopes for speedy Karabakh settlement

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister further voiced hope for MG’s activity to yield tangible results in the near future.

08 August 2012 • 12:45 AMT
Defecting Syrian PM crosses border into Jordan, official says

Syrian National Council member said the defection came after “coordination between the Syrian opposition and the (rebel) Free Syrian Army.”

08 August 2012 • 12:33 AMT
Another soldier dies in Azerbaijani armed forces

Soldier of Azeri National Army, Murad Agakarimli died as a “result of careless handling of his service weapon”.

08 August 2012 • 12:29 AMT
Germany’s Robert Harting wins Olympic discus gold

Harting was lying 2nd behind Iran’s Ehsan Hadadi going into the penultimate round, but threw 68.27m to beat Hadadi’s 68.18 opening-round effort.

08 August 2012 • 12:15 AMT
Sylvester Stallone goes brutal in “The Expendables 2″ clip

Also starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren the film will hit U.S. theaters on Aug 17.

08 August 2012 • 12:09 AMT
Jennifer Lopez sues former driver Hakob Manoukian for extortion

Lopez claims Manoukian retaliated by threatening to reveal confidential information that would be embarrassing for her.

08 August 2012 • 12:04 AMT
Soccer legend Pele biopic in development

Being tapped to write the script are filmmaker duo Jeff and Michael Zimbalist, who are also courted to direct the biopic.

08 August 2012 • 12:00 AMT
President Sargsyan: Russian investments welcome in Armenia

Armenian leader noted that Russian investments make up almost half of the foreign investments the country attracts.

08 August 2012 • 11:45 AMT
Kurdish rebels behind 2 Aleppo Armenians’ murder – report

Two Armenians were killed in Aleppo disturbances. Sources say, they were defending Aleppo’s Armenian districts.

08 August 2012 • 11:44 AMT
Google gives over Olympic doodle to interactive hoops game

This time, visitors to the Google homepage get to lob basketballs through a hoop by pressing the space bar.

08 August 2012 • 11:25 AMT
“Murdered” Russian General dispels Syrian rebels’ claims of his death

Al Arabiya broadcast a video earlier in which the Free Syrian Army claimed to have killed General Vladmir Kojaiv.

08 August 2012 • 11:10 AMT
Reese Witherspoon to star in “The Beard” romantic comedy

Witherspoon is shooting Devil’s Knot, Atom Egoyan’s take on the West Memphis Three murder case that also stars Colin Firth.

08 August 2012 • 10:43 AMT
Retired Revolutionary Guards among Iranian hostages in Syria, Tehran says

The rebels have accused hostages of carrying out a “reconnaissance mission” on behalf of Syrian government forces.

08 August 2012 • 10:28 AMT
France headed back into recession, country’s central bank warns

France emerged from its last recession – defined by economists as two consecutive quarters of negative growth – in the spring of 2009.

08 August 2012 • 10:15 AMT
“Fifty Shades of Grey” named bestselling book ever in Britain

The erotic novel has sold in excess of 5.3m copies in print and ebook – more than The Highway Code or Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.

08 August 2012 • 09:44 AMT
Paul Rudd’s “This Is 40” comedy trailer hits the web

The original comedy expands on the story of Pete and Debbie from “Knocked Up” and how they’re dealing with their current state of life.

08 August 2012 • 09:35 AMT
ThinkPad X1 Carbon Ultrabook price, release date revealed

Touted as the ‘lightest 14-inch Ultrabook in the world,’ it features a lightweight form factor constructed from carbon fiber materials.

08 August 2012 • 09:22 AMT
Afghan suicide attacks leave 3 NATO soldiers dead

Two insurgents wearing suicide vests blew themselves up as a group of foreign troops walked from their base to nearby compound.

08 August 2012 • 09:03 AMT
Syrian rebels abandon positions in frontline Aleppo district

A Syrian govt. security source told Lebanon’s Al-Manar television that Syrian forces were now in control of Salaheddine district.

08 August 2012 • 08:47 AMT
Russia ex-PM: Israeli strike will force Iran to make own weapons of mass destruction

Yevgeny Primakov: Israeli airstrikes on Iranian nuke facilities are possible but in case they are delivered they will have small impact on Iran.

08 August 2012 • 08:40 AMT
Clint Eastwood’s “Trouble With The Curve” drama trailer released

The film features Clint Eastwood as veteran baseball scout whose daughter (Amy Adams) accompanies him on a trip to check out hot prospect.

08 August 2012 • 08:28 AMT
“Harry Potter” 1st on NPR list of best young adult novels

The series beat out the second-placed “The Hunger Games” and Harper Lee’s third-placed 1960 classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

08 August 2012 • 08:04 AMT
Facebook rolls out mobile ad unit to promote apps

The unit is automated; to buy an ad you merely have to fill out an online form and delineate which demo you’re trying to reach.

08 August 2012 • 07:54 AMT
Russia’s Ivan Ukhov wins Olympic men’s high jump gold

America’s Erik Kynard took silver, with the bronze medal split three ways between Mutaz Essa Barshim, Derek Drouin and Robbie Grabarz.

08 August 2012 • 07:35 AMT
Hurricane Ernesto hits Mexico’s Caribbean coast

U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm was moving west at 15 mph and was expected to weaken as it moved across Yucatan Peninsula.

08 August 2012 • 07:28 AMT
Russian general killed in Syria, rebel group says

A video statement from a group calling itself Hawks Special Operations Battalion gave the name of the general as Vladimir Kochyev.