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07 February 2012 • 08:49 AMT
Avant-garde Spanish painter Antoni Tàpies dies at 88

Tàpies was hailed as one of the biggest names in European contemporary art for his striking abstract canvases.

07 February 2012 • 08:44 AMT
Turkish Minister says no force can arrest him over Genocide denial

Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bağış commented on Swiss probe launched over his remarks on Armenian Genocide.

07 February 2012 • 08:42 AMT
Sony Pictures unveils The Amazing Spider-Man trailer

Webb said one of the main focuses in the new Spidey movie was to explore Parker’s life in the context of being an orphan.

07 February 2012 • 08:41 AMT
Putin’s presidency will be short-lived, expert says

“Russia brought up a new generation unafraid to face the truth,” expert at Russian Academy for Geopolitical Issues said.

07 February 2012 • 08:29 AMT
Amati violin to be offered Sotheby’s London sale of Musical Instruments

Nicolò Amati was the grandson of Andrea Amati and was the leading violin maker in Italy from 1630 to 1684.

07 February 2012 • 08:16 AMT
Abraham’s next bout scheduled for March 31, opponent unknown

“King Arthur” will face an opponent to be named in what is being called a dress rehearsal for a world title fight.

07 February 2012 • 08:14 AMT
Greece to cut 15,000 state jobs

Greece’s debt rose to 159.1 percent of gross domestic product in the third quarter of 2011, from 138.8 percent a year earlier.

07 February 2012 • 08:11 AMT
Yura Movsisyan: I can experience real game in Krasnodar FC

“I never questioned my future profession: all I wanted was to become a professional football player,” the forward said.

07 February 2012 • 08:01 AMT
5 workers missing in Japan undersea tunnel collapse

Aerial television footage broadcast by NHK showed muddy water littered with debris filling the vertical entrance shaft.

07 February 2012 • 07:52 AMT
Anonymous claims to have released Symantec’s pcAnywhere source code

Symantec could not immediately comment on whether the hackers had indeed released the source code of its product.

07 February 2012 • 07:36 AMT
Iran dubs U.S. sanctions “antagonistic move”

“It is an antagonistic move … a psychological war which has no impact,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

07 February 2012 • 07:33 AMT
Ukraine’s Kryvbas may sign on fullback Robert Arzumanyan

Armenian national team central fullback Robert Arzumanyan is currently on loan with Poland’s Jagiellonia FC.

07 February 2012 • 07:30 AMT
Iraq’s Sunni-backed ministers end boycott

The decision comes after weeks of boycott over the government’s arrest warrant against the country’s top Sunni official.

07 February 2012 • 07:12 AMT
Toyota posts stronger operating profit, aims to sell more vehicles

October-December operating profit jumped 51.1 percent to 149.7 billion yen ($1.95 billion) from a year earlier.

07 February 2012 • 06:53 AMT
Moscow to host Mikhail Tal Memorial June 7-19

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian won the tournament silver in 2011, with the same score as champ Magnus Carlsen.

07 February 2012 • 06:48 AMT
Czech government suspends ACTA ratification

A wave of protests against the international agreement, including hackers´ attacks, has swollen across the globe.

07 February 2012 • 06:33 AMT
McDonald’s apologizes for its add ‘offending’ pit bulls

The radio ad for Chicken McBites only ran for a few days in the Kansas City area before the complaints started.

07 February 2012 • 06:19 AMT
Malatya municipality in Turkey agrees to rebuild demolished Armenian shrine

The municipality promised to push forward with the project without making any additional changes, Köletavitoğlu said.

07 February 2012 • 05:59 AMT
Google honors Charles Dickens 200th birth anniversary with doodle

The Prince of Wales will lay a wreath on Dickens’ grave at Westminster Abbey, where he was buried in 1870.

07 February 2012 • 05:19 AMT
Iran arrests several people allegedly working for BBC

The BBC said in a statement that there are “no BBC Persian staff members or stringers working inside Iran.”

07 February 2012 • 05:18 AMT
U.S. hopes Lavrov will advise Assad to resign

“Our hope and expectation is that Foreign Minister Lavrov will use this opportunity,” Victoria Nuland has said.

06 February 2012 • 18:31 AMT
Google starts building super-fast fiber optic network in Kansas City

A 1 gigabit-per-second Internet connection will offer downloads 100 times faster than what most Americans get.

06 February 2012 • 18:21 AMT
Amazon plans to open retail store – rumor

They intend on going with the small boutique route with the main emphasis on books from their growing line of Amazon Exclusives.

06 February 2012 • 17:59 AMT
Swiss Envoy summoned to Turkish Foreign Ministry over Bagis case

Deputy FM Firudin Sinirlioglu slammed the launch of investigation on Turkish Minister for EU Affairs as unacceptable.

06 February 2012 • 17:56 AMT
Turkey, South Korea may manufacture new attack helicopter

Abdullah Gül also said Turkey wanted to make nuclear energy an element of the cooperation between the two countries.

06 February 2012 • 17:38 AMT
London to host International Art Fair

Included will be oils, original prints, water colors, some photography, sculpture and ceramics – ranging from 1900 to the present day.

06 February 2012 • 17:28 AMT
Microsoft Flight game release date announced

“This video game has you rolling through a wide variety of environments in a lovely aircraft,” the report says.

06 February 2012 • 17:23 AMT
Philippines quake leaves at least 44 dead

An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale jolted a central Philippines’ Negros Oriental province February 6.

06 February 2012 • 17:21 AMT
Britain pulls ambassador out of Syria for consultations

William Hague: Britain expresses its “abhorrence” at violent crackdown on dissent by President Assad’s regime.

06 February 2012 • 17:20 AMT
U.S. imposes stricter sanctions on Iran central bank

New sanctions prevent any assets deemed to be in U.S. control from being transferred, paid, exported or withdrawn.