Transparency International ranks Armenia 94th out of 177 countries, while Moldavia is ranked 102nd; Russia took 127th spot.

"Hannibal was not only the greatest African general to ever live," the Academy Award-winning actress says in a statement.

APFF was launched in 1954 in Japan and has since been rebranded as the pan-Asian event it is known as today.

The National Intelligence Agency made the assessment based on information that two of Jang's closest confidants were executed in public.

Sulphuric acid was thrown at Bolshoi artistic director Sergei Filin, outside his Moscow flat in January, badly damaging his eyesight.

Fire from the Syrian civil war has occasionally spilled over into the Golan, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 war.

Robert Fisk: the descendants of the Armenian Christian survivors who found sanctuary in the old Syrian lands have been forced to flee again.

Last year, "Moonrise Kingdom" won Best Feature, while "Beasts of the Southern Wild"'s Benh Zeitlin took home Breakthrough Director.

"Desolation of Smaug" continues the adventure of Bilbo Baggins on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.