YEREVAN (RFE/RL)-Nikol Pashinian, a fugitive opposition figure and newspaper editor, spoke to journalists in Yerevan moments before turning himself in to the Armenian police on Wednesday.

SYDNEY: The Board of Galstaun College has announced the next phase of their Strategic Planning process with a Special Enrolment Drive designed to raise students numbers to 320 by the end of 2010.

Despite a more optimistic economic outlook that has been presented by Armenian government officials of late, the country's economy continued to decline in July amid a deepening fallout from the global recession, showing a 18.5 percent Gross Domestic Product contraction in the seven months of 2009.

Galstaun College has continued to advance in the information technology space with the receipt of another software donation from Microsoft Australia, as part of the company's Citizenship and Employee Donation Program.

TRIESTE, Italy (Combined Sources)-Foreign Ministers from the Group of Eight most industrialized nations on Friday called for a peaceful settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the normalization of strained relations between Armenia and Turkey.

In joint statements released on the final day of the Group of Eight summit, the Presidents of the US, France and Russia called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and pledge their countries' commitment to lasting peace in the region.

SYDNEY: Over 100 ex-students, former and current teachers, staff and guests attended the Galstaun College Alumni Association's BACK TO SCHOOL BBQ on Sunday 16 August in Ingleside.

SYDNEY: The Galstaun College 'Carols at the Carnival' event next Sunday (13 December 2009) promises to be an ideal family event, sure to get everybody into the Christmas spirit.