Womex (World Music Expo) Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2002 and Grammy in 2007 nominated Djivan Gasparyan as an Armenian national hero, created cross-cultural collaborations with many legendary musicians and composers. By him Armenian Symbolic Musical Instrument obtained worldwide popularity in Show-Business.

An opposition member of parliament of Armenia has been knifed as he tried to intervene into a clash between a group of people and police guards on duty at the Yerevan mayor’s office building.

YEREVAN (Combined Sources)--Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov met Wednesday in Madrid on the eve of the 15th annual summit of the Council of OSCE Foreign Ministers to discuss the ongoing Karabakh settlement process with the three OSCE Co-Chairs, the Russian and French Foreign Ministers and the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State on political issues.

Administrative Court has refused permission to try seven police officers from the Trabzon police department, arguing that they had no involvement in the murder of Hrant Dink.

The Washington Post Wednesday published a letter by the Armenian Ambassador to the United States, Tatoul Margarian in response to an article entitled "Armenians Who Need Help Today," published on October 15.

Ovanes Ayrumyan's body was found in southern Moscow, he was a Armenian music student who was stabbed 18 times.

In the past several weeks three leading Armenian physicists have been receiving congratulations from their colleagues and friends after a transnational collaboration they are part of won a prestigious prize in the field of science.