Respected Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say has been convicted of denigrating religion through comments he made on Twitter, his lawyer said yesterday.
The 43-year-old, who has played with the New York Philharmonic and other orchestras, was on trial for sending tweets last year, including one that joked about a religious leader and Islamic practices.
He is the latest...
A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered the Bolshoi ballet dancer suspected of ordering an acid attack on its artistic director Sergei Filin to stay in detention until at least June 18, rejecting a petition for him to be freed.
The judge extended the arrest of leading Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko for the investigation to finish, ruling that he was suspected of a serious...
Soft drinks king Coca-Cola reported a fall in earnings for the first quarter Tuesday as sales sagged in the key US and European markets and restructuring costs hit North American profits.
Coke’s net income for the quarter to March 31 fell 14.8 percent to a lower-than-expected $1.75 billion, compared to $2.05 billion a year earlier.
Sales in Latin American grew 4...
These schoolchildren in southern China are so keen to get to school that they make the perilous journey on narrow wooden ladders every day, with no safety precautions.
Their village in the remote Badagong mountains in Sangzhi county is surrounded by sheer drops on every side, making the school run a daily struggle.
The only way out of Zhang Jiawan village, unless the children...
Thousands of DNA tests on beef products across the European Union found the meals contained up to 5.0 percent of horsemeat, the European Commission said Tuesday.
The EU on February 15 ordered 2,250 DNA tests on prepared meals said to contain beef in the wake of a horsemeat scandal that hugely undermined consumer confidence in the food industry.
It also ordered tests in...
A court in Japan has told Google it must de-link words in its autocomplete to prevent the search engine suggesting criminal acts when users type one man’s name.
The Monday ruling by Tokyo District Court was the first time a court in Japan has ordered the search giant to alter this aspect of its algorithm, said Hiroyuki Tomita, a lawyer representing the plaintiff.
The...
Yerevan, 16 April 2013 – More than 420 trees were planted by the representatives of the UN Office in Armenia, Government, international community and civil society during a Tree Planting Day organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the UN Office in Armenia, the Charitable Foundation “Armenia Tree Project” in the Avan administrative district of Yerevan. The...
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