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11:24 • 05.04.13Film critic Roger Ebert dies at 70 of cancerEbert, known for his thumbs-up or down reviews on a television programme with partner and friend Gene Siskel, became a film critic for the Sun-Times in 1967...
10:44 • 05.04.13Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks to Produce Gorbachev filmThe ex-Soviet leader himself will serve as a consultant/source for the project ...
14:55 • 04.04.13Desmond Tutu wins $1.7 million Templeton PrizeThe foundation, whose first award went to Mother Teresa in 1973, praised Tutu as a moral voice for people around the world". "Desmond Tutu calls upon all of us to recognize ...
14:28 • 04.04.13Louis XVI's bloody cloth auctioned for $24,400The Coutau Begarie auction house said the cloth had been scooped by a French collector who is fascinated by the former monarch. Parisians had jostled to take souvenirs ...
11:55 • 03.04.13Hayak national film award contender films knownOverall 48 films have been presented for Hayak-2013 national film contest of which 6 from abroad, and 42 from Armenia...
10:42 • 03.04.13Armenian cathedral near Kars, Turkey, on verge of collapse – US expert alarmsAccording to Maranci, "the cathedral of Mren is now in danger of collapse. Constructed circa 638 AD, Mren is a masterpiece of world art and a product of the ‘Golden Age' of Armenian architecture...
19:27 • 01.04.13British anaesthetist writes novel while patients were unconsciousBound with New Ropes, a 480-page love story, follows the tale of a university lecturer who falls for one of his students. It tracks his downfall as he is eventually ...
17:25 • 01.04.13Vienna opera director collapses during performanceFranz Welser-Moest collapsed into his podium at the end of the first act of the four-and-a-half-hour long Parsifal, BBC reports...
21:37 • 31.03.13Ethnographic dances taught at Russian-Armenian University“We came up with the idea of introducing ethnographic dances to the university's curricula as we were considering the significance of national dances with Gagik Ginosyan. As for the students ...
17:42 • 31.03.13Etchmiadzin Mother Cathedral celebrates Easter (photos)The Holy See of St. Etchmiadzin hosted on Sunday a liturgy dedicated to the Easter day.
18:04 • 30.03.13Armenian churches celebrate evening Candlelight Divine Liturgy at the end of which resurrection of the Savior is proclaimedSpeaking to Tert.am Rev Yesayi Artenyan said the first and the most important thing of this holiday is belief from which the wish and readiness to participate in the liturgy stems...
16:20 • 30.03.13The winner of the Voice of Armenia project to be known todayThe four participants that will compete in the final are Iskuhi Hovannisian, from singer Tata Simonyan’s team, Narek Makaryan, from Sofi Mkheyan’s team, Mary Mnjoyan from Sona’s team and...
15:42 • 30.03.13Well-known Russian actor Valery Zolotukhin diesZolotukhin was artistic director of Moscow's Taganka Theatre since October 2011, but resigned in connection with the state of health...
13:10 • 30.03.13J-Lo dropped from performing in front of 60million people in India over diva demands for private planeHer manager Benny Medina reportedly asked organisers to make a private plane available to the superstar and pay for hotel rooms for her extensive entourage, including stylists and a personal chef...
17:40 • 29.03.13Robert Zildjian, founder of Sabian cymbal company, dies at 89Zildjian ran the second-largest cymbal manufacturer in the world behind only the Avedis Zildjian Company ...