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Headlines for April 16, 2012INDIA FACTORY COLLAPSE 'TRAPS MANY' IN PUNJAB
Several people are feared trapped under the debris of a blanket factory which collapsed in the Indian city of Jalandhar late on Sunday night.
Emergency workers searched through the debris and more than ...GOOGLE FINED $25,000
Google Inc has been fined $25,000 for impeding a US investigation into the Web search leader's data collection for its Street View project, which allows users to see street level images when they map ...THREE GIRLS AMONG OKLAHOMA TORNADO DEAD
Clean-up efforts were underway across the Midwest on Sunday after dozens of tornadoes ripped across the region, killing five people in one Oklahoma town, three of them young girls, after storm sirens ...SUSPECT IN NORWAY MASS MURDER GOES ON TRIAL
The trial of the man accused of killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in Norway began Monday.
Anders Behring Breivik entered the courtroom in a black suit and raised his hand in a clenched-fist ...FIRST UN OBSERVERS ARRIVE IN SYRIA
The first group of UN observers to monitor the truce in Syria arrived in Damascus. The mission includes six people who start their work on Monday, confirmed a spokesperson of the United Nations. 30 observers ...BRITISH MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT PUTS $16 MILLION BOUNTY ON OBAMA, GEORGE W. BUSH
British Lord Nazir Ahmed put a £10 million ($16 million) bounty on both President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush Friday, according to The Express Tribune, an English language Pakistani ...PHTHALATES FOUND IN COSMETICS, MAKE-UP AND PERFUME 'INCREASE DIABETES RISK'
Chemicals found in everyday cosmetics and make-up products could be increasing your risk of diabetes, researchers have warned.
The dangers of phthalates (the chemical compounds found in plasticisers - ...OBAMA SAYS MORE IRAN SANCTIONS COMING IF TALKS DRAG
U.S. President Barack Obama said there would be more sanctions imposed on Iran if there is no breakthrough in nuclear talks with global powers in the coming months, responding to Israeli accusations that ...AUSTRALIAN GIRL, 2, HOME ALONE WITH DEAD MUM FOR FIVE DAYS
An Australian two-year-old spent up to five days home alone with the body of her dead mother, according to officials who said Monday she may have survived on chocolate Easter eggs.
The severely dehydrated ...SAQUNTS SUFFERED BECAUSE OF VANYAN
Another battle against azerbaijani film festival took place today and this time in Vanadzor. This morning a group of people attacked Helsinki Citizens Assembly hitting with eggs and broke the windows. ...SERZH SARGSYAN RECEIVED THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS SERGEI MARTINOV
President Serzh Sargsyan received today the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus Sergei Martinov, who is conducting an official visit to Armenia. President Serzh Sargsyan and Foreign ...SHAKIRA: SEXIEST FEMALE MUSICIAN OF ALL TIME
Los Angeles Weekly published a list of the sexiest female Musicians of All Time.
It turned out to be that Shakira is the sexiest female Musician of all time:
20. Samantha Fox
19. Grace Jones
18. Courtney ...SOUTH AFRICA'S PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA TO MARRY FOR SIXTH TIME
Mr Zuma will wed Gloria Bongekile Ngema, with whom he has a three-year-old son, in a traditional ceremony in his home village of Nkandla, in South Africa's eastern KwaZulu-Natal province.
She will become ...MADAME TUSSAUDS OPENS SYDNEY ATTRACTION
Waxworks museum Madame Tussauds opened a branch in Sydney on Monday with Australian personalities Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman sharing the stage with Barack Obama and Lady Gaga.
The world-famous London ...THREE-VOLUME BOOK ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Head of the National Archive Amatouni Virabyan said today during the press conference that a book "Overwhelmed sorrow" will be published based on the memories of the Genocide witnesses.
The book is made ...GENOCIDE1915.ORG
Genocide1915.org is developed by Armenica.org in cooperation with the Union of Armenian Associations in Sweden for spreading information about the 1915 genocide in Ottoman Turkey which engulfed Armenians, ...ANDERS BEHRING BREIVIK CRIES DURING OWN PROPAGANDA FILM
In an average year, 30 murders are committed in Norway. In three hours one afternoon in July last year, Anders Behring Breivik more than doubled that figure. Yet when he appeared at the first day of his ...LUKASHENKO FREES DISSIDENTS TO REPAIR LINKS WITH EU
Authoritarian Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has freed two prominent opponents from prison in an apparent attempt to soothe ties with the European Union after it tightened sanctions against ...GOOGLE NAMED MOST POPULAR US COMPANY
Apple may be the world's most admired company according to Fortune Magazine, but as far as Americans are concerned, Google is the most popular. A survey of 1,007 adults commissioned by the Washington ...
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Today in Armenian history- 1879 Death in Moscow (Russia) of Stepanos Nazaryan, editor of the "Aurora Borealis". He was born in 1812.
- 1918 The "Messenger Book" daily is published in Tbilissi (Georgia): the first Soviet newspaper in Armenian.
- 1923 The Soviet of People's Committee of the Armenian SSR creates the State Cinema of Soviet Armenia (HayFilm).
- 1953 Academician Hrachia Atcharyan (linguist) dies in Yerevan. He was born in 1876.
- 1958 Death of composer Vagharshak Srvandztian.
- 1959 The Armenian SSR Supreme Soviet confirms the new Education Policy of Armenia.
- 1984 The US House of Representatives accepts a resolution (number 247) requesting that the Government announce that 1985 04 24 be designated a "National Day of Commemoration of Man's Inhumanity to Man".
- 1984 The Permanent People's Tribunal recognized the Armenian Genocide.
- 1998 An international seminar took place in the Sorbonne (Paris) on the Armenian Genocide. It was organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Party and financed by the See of Cilicia.
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