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Headlines for June 03, 2012PASSENGER PLANE 'CRASHES INTO BUILDING IN LAGOS'
A passenger plane has crashed into a building in Nigeria's main city of Lagos, officials and witnesses say. The Dana Air flight was heading from Lagos to Abuja, Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority head ...PROTESTS ERUPT OVER MUBARAK TRIAL
Protests have continued overnight in Cairo's Tahrir Square, after ex-President Hosni Mubarak was jailed for life for his part in the killing of protesters during the 2011 revolution, BBC reports. The ...OSCE MISSION HOLDS ONE-SIDED MONITORING ON THE LINE OF CONTACT
Extraordinary monitoring of the line of contact between the Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces was conducted in the territory of Tavush province near Aygepar and Nerkin Karmiraghbyur settlements on ...CARGO PLANE HITS BUS IN GHANA AIRPORT CRASH
A cargo plane has crash landed in Ghana's capital Accra, hitting a bus full of passengers, officials say. Ten passengers on board the bus were reported to have been killed while all four crew members ...CAR ACCIDENT KILLS 1, INJURES FOUR (PHOTOS)
Four people have been injured, another person died later in hospital as a result of a car accident in Yerevan today. Photojournalist Gagik Shamshyan reports that the accident took place on Davit Bek ...ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE ON GAZA STRIP, PALESTINIANS REPORT SEVEN WOUNDED
Israeli F-16 fighter jets carried out four successive airstrikes on the northern, central and southern Gaza Strip before dawn Sunday in response to earlier rocket attacks by militants in the enclave, ...DREW BARRYMORE MARRIES FOR THE THIRD TIME
Hollywood star Drew Barrymore has tied the knot with her art consultant fiance Will Kopelman. The 37-year-old actress married Kopelman, 34, in a garden ceremony at her home in Montecito, California ...JENNIFER LOPEZ TO PERFORM IN AZERBAIJAN (VIDEO)
World-famous singer, actress and dancer Jennifer Lopez will visit Baku to sing at the opening ceremony of the U-17 Women's World Cup, Today.Az reported. The famous 43-year-old singer Jennifer Lopez ...POP ARTIST'S 'NAKED FURNITURE' SCULPTURES SELL FOR RECORD £2.6M
Sculptures by a British artist that provoked a storm of feminist protest when they were first exhibited have sold for an astonishing £2.6 million, The Daily Mail reports. The sum - almost ...HAMBURG WARZONE: 700 ARRESTED AS LEFTISTS CLASH WITH NEO-NAZIS
Violent clashes have broken out in Germany between the supporters and opponents of the neo-Nazi movement. Hamburg police have detained over 700 people after the demonstrators started throwing projectiles, ...DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES ACTRESS KATHRYN JOOSTEN DIES
US TV actress Kathryn Joosten, best known for her roles in Desperate Housewives and The West Wing, has died, BBC reports. Joosten, who was 72, died in California of lung cancer, 11 years after she was ...ANC DOES NOT CARE ABOUT REPUBLICAN PARTY'S APPOINTMENTS - LYUDMILA SARGSYAN
The parliamentary faction of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) opposition bloc will attend the sittings of the parliament but will boycott the program to be presented by the newly-formed government. ...RUSSIA-EU SUMMIT KICKS OFF
The 29th Russia-EU summit launches today in St. Petersburg, Russian mass media report. The Russian delegation is headed by the country's President Vladimir Putin, the EU's by President of the European ...SYRIA PRESIDENT BLAMES 'OUTSIDE FORCES' FOR CRISIS
Syrian President Bashar Assad said Sunday that his country is facing a "real war," warning that he will not be lenient with the terrorists he says are behind the country's uprising, The AP reports. ...MADONNA COMES UNDER FIRE FOR BRANDISHING AK-47 AS SHE KICKS OFF MDNA TOUR IN ISRAEL CALLING FOR 'WORLD PEACE' (VIDEO)
Madonna has been criticised for glamourising guns as she kicked off her MDNA world tour in Israel, The Daily Mail reports. The singer performed characteristically controversial dance routines during ...THE SHOCKING PHOTO REVEALS THE DAMAGE THE SUN CAUSES
The shocking photo of a man has revealed the damage the sun does to your face, The Daily Mail reports. The unnamed 69-year old man spent 28 years driving a truck, meaning he was far more exposed to ...SQUIRREL HALTS DISNEYWORLD MONORAIL (VIDEO)
A monorail driver at DisneyWorld in Florida stops her train and honks her horn rather than running over a squirrel that had climbed onto the track, The Telegraph reports. In video footage posted online ...WOMAN DISCOVERS SMALL BIRD WITH TWO HEADS AND THREE BEAKS
April Britt from Northampton, Massachusetts, found in her backyard a baby female Cardinal with two heads and three beaks, The Daily Mail reports. The avid bird watcher and animal lover said she has ...WEST COVERS OWN ISSUES UNDER IRAN'S NUKE PROGRAM - AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI
The sanctions against Iran have not proved their efficiency but only deepened the hatred of Iranians toward the West, Iran's spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei said on state ...3 KILLED IN NIGHTCLUB BLAST IN SERBIA
Police in Serbia say three people have been killed and eight others injured in a hand grenade blast at a packed village nightclub. The explosion in Idvor, north of Belgrade, occurred at 2:30 a.m. Sunday ...GERMAN-MADE SUBMARINES SOLD TO ISRAEL HAVE EXTENSIVE NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES - DER SPIEGEL
Der Spiegel reports German-made submarines sold to Israel will allow it to create 'floating nuclear weapons cache' in Mediterranean's waters. An in-depth report in German magazine Der Spiegel suggests ...SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 12 IN NIGERIA CHURCH
A suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into a church in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least 12 people, witnesses said. Security forces at a road block nearby said the bomber forced ...YSLU EX-RECTOR'S PARTICIPATION IN CONTEST TO MEAN RECOGNIZING LEGALITY OF DECREE ON HIS REMOVAL
Ex-rector of the Yerevan State Linguistic University after Valery Brusov (YSLU) Suren Zolyan has not filed an application for participation in the contest for the vacant position of the rector of the ...US DRONE KILLS 10 SUSPECTED MILITANTS IN PAKISTAN
An American drone strike in the frontier tribal areas of Pakistan killed 10 suspected militants Sunday, Pakistani officials said. It was sixth such strike in two weeks as the U.S. pushes ahead with ...CHINA: 11 DEAD IN 19 CAR PILE-UP
At least 11 people have died and 19 others are injured in a series of highway pileups in a fog-shrouded Chinese province. The official Xinhua News Agency says the carnage resulted from seven separate ...BOATS TAKE TO THAMES FOR QUEEN'S JUBILEE FLOTILLA
More than 1,000 boats were to sail down the River Thames on Sunday in a flotilla tribute to Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years on the throne that organizers are calling the biggest pageant on the river for ...‘HUMAN BARCODE' COULD MAKE SOCIETY MORE ORGANIZED, BUT INVADES PRIVACY, CIVIL LIBERTIES
Microchip implants have become standard practice for pets, but have been a tougher sell when it comes to the idea of putting them in people. Science fiction author Elizabeth Moon last week rekindled ...ARMENIA NEEDS CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY CENTER
Few months ago the Healthcare ministry has stated about the intention to establish oncology center for children, however nothing has been done till now, oncologist Grigor Badalyan said, speaking to Tert.am. ...WESTERN TURKISH DISTRICT HIT BY THREE BLASTS
Three noise bombs exploded within 10 minutes of each other in İzmir's Bornova district today, daily Sabah reported. There were no injures in the blasts, which occurred in a student dormitory and two ...KITTEN STUCK IN CAR'S EXHAUST
A driver who felt his car was losing power checked under the bonnet - and found a kitten stuck in the engine, metro.co.uk reports. The motorist found the two-month-old creature wedged inside the exhaust ...EGYPT EYES GEORGIA'S POTI PORT TO SHIP KAZAKH WHEAT
Egypt, the world's biggest wheat importer, said on Sunday it was looking to use Georgia's Poti port for shipments of Kazakh wheat once the port is upgraded to receive Panamax ships carrying shipments ...JAPAN 'DOOMSDAY CULT MEMBER' HELD
A woman who may be a Japanese cult member wanted over the deadly 1995 gas attacks on the Tokyo subway has been arrested, Japanese media say. They say Naoko Kikuchi, a 40-year-old ex-member of the Aum ...EGYPT'S TOP PROSECUTOR TO APPEAL MUBARAK VERDICT AMID PUBLIC OUTRAGE
Egypt's state prosecutor will appeal the verdict in Hosni Mubarak's trial, which acquitted the former leader and his two sons on corruption charges and cleared senior police officers of complicity in ...SYRIA'S ASSAD 'MANOEUVRING' TO GAIN TIME: SAUDI FM
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal accused Syria's President Bashar al-Assad of "manoeuvring" to gain time, at a joint news conference Sunday with UN chief Ban Ki-moon, the AFP reports. ...KSENIA SOBCHAK PLAYS IN ARMENIAN DIRECTOR'S FILM
Maria Sahakyan's "House 2012" film will be among the ones to be shown at Golden Apricot 9th international film festival. Ksenia Sobchak, Russian celebrity, plays a producer in the film considered one ...UKRAINE WILL BE ENERGY-INDEPENDENT BY 2020
Environment and Natural Resources Minister of Ukraine Eduard Stavitsky stated that , according to BBC. "If we do what we have planned to do, I am not mistaken," the Ukrainian minister said. "The extremely ...ANNAN'S PLAN INDISPENSABLE FOR SYRIA CRISIS SETTLEMENT - SERGEI LAVROV
Moscow believes the UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's plan is the indispensable foundation for settlement of Syria's protracted political crisis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday. ...CYPRUS WOULD SEEK EU BAILOUT MONEY 'IF NECESSARY'
Cyprus appears to be edging closer to a bailout, with the central bank governor saying that the country will seek European Union aid if necessary, BBC reports. The comments by Panicos Demetriades, made ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1837 Birth of novelist Perch Proshyan in Ashtarak. He died in 1907.
- 1845 The first trade fair in Armenia opened in Alexandropol. (Gyoomree).
- 1896 Start of the battle for the defense of Van. (Western Armenia).
- 1907 Coup d'etat in Russia by Stolipin.
- 1921 Trial in Berlin of Soghomon Tehlirian, the executor of Talaat (one of the organizers of the Armenian Genocide). Tehlirian is acquitted.
- 1933 The Armenian SSR creates the State Monuments Preservation Committee.
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