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16 May 2012 • 11:19 AMT
CBS Films picks up “Ends of the Earth” vampire thriller at Cannes

The film follows best friends who go on trip around the world; all goes well until they have an encounter that will alter them forever.

16 May 2012 • 11:11 AMT
WSJ: Apple orders bigger screens from Asian suppliers for new iPhone

Apple has also stuck with one size for its iPad tablet, while other manufacturers have produced a range of sizes.

16 May 2012 • 11:06 AMT
Cannes 2012: Jude Law to star in “Dom Hemingway” black comedy

Law will play title character Dom Hemingway, billed as a larger-than-life safecracker with a loose fuse.

16 May 2012 • 10:50 AMT
Comedy, chaos dominate Canes Film Fest opening

Thousands of journalists and movie executives are in Riviera resort for 12 hectic days of screenings and dealmaking.

16 May 2012 • 10:13 AMT
UN aims to collect monitoring team from Syrian town

“Three UN vehicles were damaged but no UN personnel were hurt in this explosion,” Kofi Annan’s spokesman said.

16 May 2012 • 10:07 AMT
Armenian ambassador meets Georgian First Deputy FM

On May 15, Armenian ambassador to Georgia Hovhannes Manoukian met with Georgian First Deputy Foreign Minister Nikoloz Vashakidze.

16 May 2012 • 10:01 AMT
France’s new Prime Minister assumes office

The 62-year-old has led the country’s Socialists in the lower house of Parliament for more than a decade.

16 May 2012 • 09:46 AMT
Two HTC phones may be blocked by U.S. Customs

The ruling said that HTC phones with the disputed technology would be banned from entering the U.S. from 19 April.

16 May 2012 • 09:44 AMT
Expert forecasts Azeri provocation during Eurovision contest

David Jamalyan further noted Armenia’s decision to withdraw from Eurovision 2012 song contest as a correct one.

16 May 2012 • 09:31 AMT
Susi Kentikian, Melissa McMorrow make weight

The boxers made weight, with Susi Kentikian reaching 112 pounds and her rival weighing 111.3 pounds.

16 May 2012 • 09:18 AMT
Prominent Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dies at 83

His death was confirmed by Julio Ortega, his biographer and a professor of Hispanic studies at Brown University.

16 May 2012 • 09:07 AMT
Oil prices below $93 amid reports on U.S. crude supply surge

Inventories of gasoline fell 2.6 million barrels last week while distillates tumbled 1.6 million barrels, the API said.

16 May 2012 • 09:01 AMT
Artsakh President meets Armenian Deputy FM

Bako Sahakyan and Shavarsh Kocharyan discussed foreign policy issues and cooperation between the two Armenian states.

16 May 2012 • 08:54 AMT
Ilham Aliyev, “naughty son” of the “national leader”?

The 18 years of fragile ceasefire at the contact line between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan never yielded the expected results: violations of the ceasefire continue, Azerbaijan refuses to call off its snipers and keeps on subversive activities. In addition, it keeps dubbing as “provocation” everything happening in Stepanakert, from military parade to elections.

16 May 2012 • 08:47 AMT
ANC coordinator briefs OSCE observer on election fraud

Discussion of OSCE/ODIHR final report was in focus of the meeting between Levon Zurabyan and Radmila Šekerinska.

16 May 2012 • 08:35 AMT
OSCE Mission monitors contact line between NKR, Azerbaijan

The Azerbaijani side did not lead the OSCE mission to its front-lines, as a result of which it was held from a farther distance.

16 May 2012 • 08:24 AMT
Paper: Prosperous Armenia MP may become Diaspora Minister?

The RPA and Prosperous Armenia will come up with statements by the end of this week, according to Yerkir paper.

16 May 2012 • 08:19 AMT
Apple to use thin-film touch technology for iPad mini

Wintek, another touch module supplier for Apple, does not have thin-film touch capacity, the sources said.

16 May 2012 • 08:15 AMT
London to host colorful Wimbledon at Summer Olympics

Venus Williams, who has won three Olympic gold medals, has chance to wear something different at All England Club.

16 May 2012 • 08:07 AMT
VivaCell-MTS customers may win ticket to EURO 2012 winner country

The customers can take part in a special draw and win prizes, including HTC Flyer tablet, MTS Ego smartphone, etc.

16 May 2012 • 08:02 AMT
Japan’s operator DoCoMo announces cloud based services

The final update, which will come in August, will bring multiple device download options to the carrier’s dmarket content store.

16 May 2012 • 07:55 AMT
Obama holds assets worth between $2.6m and $8.3m

The vice president disclosed in his 2011 tax returns receiving $20,900 in rental income on a guest house in Wilmington, Del.

16 May 2012 • 07:50 AMT
Istanbul court releases 47 Fenerbahçe fans, sends 1 to jail

One of the detainees, Tunahan İ, was convicted of throwing a Molotov cocktail at a police vehicle at a gas station.

16 May 2012 • 07:47 AMT
Murray defeats Nalbandian at Rome Masters round 2

Nalbandian battled back to level the match and went a break up in the decider before his frequent unforced errors began to tell.

16 May 2012 • 07:35 AMT
RPA member rules out coalition with ANC and Heritage – paper

Dwelling on international observers’ assessments, Manvel Badeyan said no official accusations on election frauds were issued.

16 May 2012 • 07:29 AMT
China Mobile in talks with Apple over iPhone

“We have applied to the United States for a license, but it’s not been rejected yet,” China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua said.

16 May 2012 • 07:18 AMT
Paper: RPA member deems election drawbacks trifles

David Harutyunyan says parliamentary elections in Armenia were conducted on a proper level, Zhoghovurd paper reports.

16 May 2012 • 07:16 AMT
Google announces new feature “research pane” for doc search

This is the latest in a series of upgrades that the Internet giant has been working on for Google Docs over the past year.

16 May 2012 • 07:08 AMT
Moscow police dismantles anti-Putin activists’ camp

The authorities alleged that the protesters had caused some $650,000 worth of damage to greenery during their stay.

16 May 2012 • 07:01 AMT
Orinats Yerkir reforms party administration, paper says

In conversation with Zhoghovurd paper, Orinats Yerkir spokesman Harutyun Amiryan denied information on party dissolution.