The situation in the country continues to spiral out of control, taking the death toll in the last four days to at least 230.

The festival’s top jury awards went to Beasts of the Southern Wild (drama) and The House I Live In (documentary).

Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian tied the game vs. Azerbaijan’s Teymour Radjabov in Tata Steel round 13.

The man, who suffered severe injuries in a collapse of a wall, was taken to the hospital: an investigation is under way.

Etta James died January 20 at the age of 73 of complications due to leukemia at a hospital in Riverside, California.

Brad, 48, and Angelina, 36, have been together for seven years. The two met on the set of their hit action flick Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

This month Reporters Without Borders demoted Turkey to 148th place out of 178 countries in its annual World Press Freedom Index.

The 18-year-old Artur Gachinski led his mentor, idol and training partner by 0.09 points after the short program.

In the last round, the Armenian grandmaster will face Azerbaijan’s Teimour Rajabov, who has gained 7.5 points.

The USC Shoah Foundation Institute is broadening its archive to incorporate testimony from survivors of other genocides.

The European Commission said that “executive tasks must remain the full responsibility of the Greek government.”

“In particular we hope that Iran will engage with us on the possible military dimensions of Iran’s nuclear program,” Nackaerts said.

Latvia’s Finance Ministry said the commission has given it three months to work out an action plan to remove the shortcomings.

The Arab League suspended its observer mission to Syria on Jan. 28, sharply criticizing escalating violence in recent days.

The most common human rights violation was against Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Recently an article about Nagorno Karabakh was published in famous American news website Huffington Post.

Chess960, or Fischer Random Chess, is a chess variant invented by former World Champion Bobby Fischer.

“Apple’s iPhone 4S cut Samsung off at the knees and outpaced Samsung’s highly coveted 280% smartphone growth,” wrote ABI.

The Athens Geodynamic Institute says the undersea earthquake occurred at 12:50 p.m about 243 kilometers from Athens.

On January 28, Moscow Open 2012 chess festival kicks off, with 7 Armenian chess players participating.

The report was released just ahead of a visit to Jerusalem and Ramallah next week by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Seyran Ohanyan says that Armenian armed forces general staff keeps grappling with the issue of tragic incidents in the army.

Anonymous launched successful distributed denial of service attacks on the Justice Department, the FBI, Universal Music, etc.

Representative of the IDB in Iran Ali Fallahi said the bank is going to make investments in Iran construction projects.

Catholicos of Great House of Cilicia Aram I met with Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches.

“We hope they will take a constructive approach. We hope that there will be substantial cooperation,” Yukiya Amano said.

The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the claim, saying only that a flare had been fired in the sector.

There was no comment from the Syrian authorities, who tightly restrict independent media access to the country.

“There is work under way. There is progress as we see it,” Lagarde told a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum.

“The Spanair management regrets this and apologizes to all those people who are affected by this situation,” the company said.