The government is seeking foreign investment to build up an energy sector hit by years of neglect and violence.

The writer has a deal with the publisher Hard Case Crime for “Joyland,” a whodunit scheduled for June 2013.

May 29 quake killed at least 16 people just nine days after a similar disaster killed six people and left thousands homeless.

Shares of the No. 1 social network fell 10 percent to an all-time low of $28.65, before closing at $28.84, or down 9.6 percent.

Lay the Favorite stars Laura Prepon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rebecca Hall, Vince Vaughn, Joshua Jackson among others.

Russian Foreign Ministry blasted McFaul’s speech saying that “his estimates of Russia-U.S. ties go far beyond diplomatic etiquette.”

Lynch will receive doctorates of fine arts degree for “contribution of distinction to the art of the moving image.”

“I appealed to Assad for bold steps now – not tomorrow, now – to create momentum for the implementation of the plan,” Annan said.

The package was partly opened by the receptionist who called the police after seeing blood stains and was overwhelmed by the smell.

The rural district of Houla, where 108 people were massacred last week, is in the province of Homs.

Romney will be formally nominated at the Republicans’ convention in Florida in late August.

This could be the final rule in the Assange case as two lower courts earlier decided in favor of the internet whistleblower’s extradition.

The actor, now 69, played the lead role of replicant hunter Rick Deckard in Scott’s 1982 sci-fi classic.

“Nowadays, journalists arriving in Azerbaijan are instructed to make its citizens slam our country’s leadership,” Azeri politician says.

Canada, Australia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Germany also said they would expel Syrian diplomatic officials.

The Italian government says the number of people made homeless has gone up from 6,000 to 14,000.

The diamond sold for approximately $1.5 million per carat; its estimate was $8.4 million to $12.3 million.

Karen Bekaryan: it is time to turn our mechanisms of reaction from situational into preventive.

The deliberate difference between PACE report on parliamentary elections in Armenia published on May 25 from the preliminary statement of ODIHR published on May 7 creates a distorted, biased, unbalanced picture, Karen Bekaryan, Chairman of European Integration NGO said in an interview with Azg daily.

Residents who managed to flee Jaar said the army dropped fliers calling on citizens to stay away from combat zones.

“Facebook IPO has destroyed faith of many private investors so VK’s IPO is postponed for an indefinite term,” VK founder said.

This year, over forty talented young musicians under 18 from different countries worldwide were invited to participate.

The acclaimed independent filmmaker’s work includes the David Bowie homage Velvet Goldmine.

Also opening with gusto, The Weinstein Company‘s The Intouchables, which averaged over $34K in four theaters.

Russian presidential aide Ushakov’s comments refer to remarks by U.S. Michael McFaul in Moscow.

The service will initially be available on the Samsung Galaxy S3 in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the UK.

A blast and subsequent collapse occurred at Electron battery manufacturing plant in Yerevan’s Charbakh district at 3 pm.

A blast and subsequent collapse occurred at Electron battery manufacturing plant in Yerevan’s Charbakh district at 3 pm.

One person, 67-year-old Janibek Martirosyan was pulled out from the rubble and taken to Erebuni medical center with heavy injuries.

The company posted a record 772.2 billion yen ($9.7 billion) loss for the fiscal year to March 2012.