Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian tied the game vs. Azerbaijan’s Teymour Radjabov in Tata Steel round 13 to win the tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. Aronian is leading the tournament with 9 points, followed by Radjabov (8 points). The remaining matches are under way.
On New Year's Eve, German ambassador in Yerevan, Hans-Jochen Schmidt shared his impressions of Armenia with a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. “The first thing that struck me in Armenia was Ararat. In good weather, it offers a marvelous view, so close and yet so far.
Classical music lover, Poland’s ambassador to Armenia Zdzislaw Raczynski has a habit to start days off with Wagner’s music. “I think Wagner’s music is a perfect start of the day. It’s encouraging and conveys an impulse for the whole day,” he said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net.
Facebook goes public with $10bn shares As one of the biggest share sales seen on Wall Street, it would dwarf the $1.9bn raised by Google when it went public in 2004.
Arab League to seek UN support over Syria Arab League chief headed to New York seeking to win support from the U.N. Security Council for a plan to end violence in Syria.
300 “Occupy” protesters detained in Oakland Police rounded up demonstrators in Oakland, California, after demonstrators broke into the City Hall and burned the American flag.
11th Italian President Scalfaro dies at 93 A devout Roman Catholic, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro spent the war years working to help imprisoned anti-Fascists and their families.
Modern Turkey has not changed since Ottoman times Assassination of Hrant Dink, intimidation of AAC Patriarch of Constantinople Mesrob Mutafyan to an extent that deprived him from aptitude to continue his activity, and threatening of migrant workers from Armenia are all the links of one chain.
Paris shows world Turkey’s true face Measuring others’ corn by her own bushel, Turkey does not even admit the thought that France, being faithful to democracy and freedom of speech, could not have voted down the bill.
France shows she is the cradle of democracy Ankara, apparently, never understood anything and continues, with an incomprehensible obstinacy, to deny not only the fact of the Armenian Genocide, but also the right of each state to adopt the laws it finds necessary.
New-born baby in Armenia named “Sarkozy” The child was named Sarkozy out of gratitude to French leader, who many Armenians have praised for backing the Genocide bill.
Dark chocolate not healthy enough For example, a 40g serving (4-7 squares) of chocolate that's 85 per cent cocoa has 227 calories and 12g saturated fat.
Sevan beach season 2011 This year, authorities decided to respect the ordinary people's right to spend their weekends on the shore of “Armenian sea” - Lake Sevan.
Megerditch Tarakdjian – a doctor and an artist After becoming a successful practitioner of family medicine, did Tarakdjian again find time to return to his love of painting and sculpting.
Armenian banks to conservative in 2012 Samvel Chazmachyan is sure that the level of liquidity of the Armenian banking system will allow it firmly resist the recession.
FBI plans monitoring social network FBI system will be able to automatically search "publicly available" material from Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.
Facebook struggles "clickjacking" The scheme, also known as "likejacking" because victims are tricked into using Facebook's "Like" button to perpetuate it.