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The world’s most expensive perfume, Shumukh, worth 1.3 million USD, has been presented in the Dubai Mall, RIA Novosti reported. Shumukh in Arabic translates to “deserving the highest”. Set with 3,571 sparkling diamonds (totalling 38.55 carats), topaz, pearls, 2479.26 grams of 18 karat gold and 5892.88 grams pure silver, Shumukh ...

Armenian pop star Lilit Hovhannisyan has announced her Dream World Tour. Hovhannisyan will perform live in more than 70 cities across the world as part of the tour. Dream will kick off March 9th from Yerevan with a live concert at the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concert Complex. Tour destinations include the U.S., Russia, Spain,...

A tomb dating back to the Ptolemaic era (305-30BC) with fifty well preserved mummies inside has been found by Egyptian archaeologists, the antiquities ministry of the country reported. The mummies were discovered in four separate burial chambers 9m deep in the Tuna-El-Gebel site in Minya, south of the capital city of Cairo. 12 o...

Many people around the world dream about meeting their beloved musician, actor or TV personality. Harut Markosyan from Armenia is one of them. But he is among the very few whose dream has come true. Markosyan’s favorite singer is Uruguayan Natalia Oreiro, and in a fascinating twist of destiny the young man ended up meeting her i...

From presidents to prime ministers and corporate executives, Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan is meeting numerous politicians and businessmen as part of the ongoing World Economic Forum in Davos. But now, a different kind of meeting has taken place. Georgian-born Russian TV star, journalist and public figure Tina Kandelaki has met Ar...

International tourist arrivals grew 6% in 2018, totaling 1.4 billion according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. UNWTO’s long term forecast issued in 2010 indicated the 1.4 billion mark would be reached in 2020, yet the remarkable growth of international arrivals in recent years has brought it two years ahead, RIA Nov...

World famous late French-Armenian chansonnier Charles Aznavour’s car (La Vanden Plas Princess) will be auctioned in France, ARMENPRESS reports French Le Figaro informs. The auction will take place on February 7. Aznavour exploited the car produced in 1996 very little. Aznavour passed away on October 1, 2018. Edited and translat...

American Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson, who co-discovered DNA, has been stripped of his honorary titles at the laboratory he once led after repeating racist comments in a documentary, CNN reports. Watson discovered the double-helix structure of DNA alongside Francis Crick in the 1950s based on the work of British ch...

Indian sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik has created a giant Santa Claus out of sand and around 10,000 plastic bottles on Puri beach. The artist is sending a green message and raising awareness on the ill-affects plastic has on environment. “I have used plastic bottles to create the sand Santa but I want to urge the people to beat pl...

In a Christmas Eve call with a young child Monday night, U.S. President Donald Trump asked a 7-year-old named Coleman whether he or she still believes in Santa Claus, saying that was a "marginal" age for knowing the truth, CNN reported. "Are you still a believer in Santa? Because at seven, it's marginal, right?" Trump asked the ...