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.

A deck log from a ship that searched for bodies after the Titanic sank sold for more than $100,000 (euro74,000) as part of a Christie's auction of memorabilia from the doomed oceanliner.

Some 1,500 people perished when the ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the north Atlantic while on its maiden voyage in 1912. As VOA's Sean Maroney reports from New York, an upcoming auction of ocean liner memorabilia will include artifacts from the ill-fated ship.