ISTANBUL - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the weekend ordered a monument to friendship between Turkey and Armenia torn down, signaling the depth of a freeze in efforts to reopen the border and improve relations between the two neighbors.

Everybody is interested in a strong Europe. In this spirit, the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2011 will do everything to make the "Europe 2020" strategy successful, declares Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, in an exclusive interview for the Council website.

Armenian Chess Federation has decided to postpone the highest league tournament of the Armenian 71st Championship and to start it on January 17th., armchess.am reports.

Yesterday took place the opening ceremony of the highest league tournament of the Armenian Women's 66th Championship. WGM N. Movsisian, WIMs S. Andriasian, N. Gasparian, WFMs L. Martirosyan, A. Kharatyan, as well as M. Gevorgyan, A. Babayan, V. Kalashyan, Sh. Sargsyan, A. Meseljyan are taking part in the tournament. The ...

In November 2010 Magnus Carlsen had relinquished the number one spot in the world – which he had held for all of the year – to World Champion Viswanathan Anand. In the two months that have elapsed Anand gained six extra points to reach an all-time personal record of 2810. ...

Southpaw former IBO and WBC silver as well as former IBF flyweight (112 pounds) and WBC, WBA and IBF super flyweight (115 pounds) belt-holder Vic Darchinyan meets Colombian-born promotional stablemate and former IBF titlist Yonnhy Perez, and Africa's two-time IBF champion Joseph Agbeko will face unbeaten Mexican-born, IBO and WBC ...