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Manchester United shrugged off their mauling against Manchester City to book their place in the quarter-finals of the League Cup.

Sir Alex Ferguson insists MU will recover from the worst result of his career after the Premier League champions were thrashed 6-1 by Manchester City at Old Trafford.

Nearly 100 motorcycle racers from 19 clubs across the country will take part in the second Vietnam Motor Cub Prix -Rebel Cup in Binh Duong Province on October 29-30.

Vietnamese athletes are set to compete in 36 sporting events for a top three spot at the 26th Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia next month.

Vietnamese star Le Quang Liem, the world number 25 with an Elo rating of 2717, finished competition at the first leg of the invitational Spice Cup.

Paragliding has been officially recognised in Vietnam with a national paragliding team for the 26th Southeast Asian Games scheduled for November.

Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh is competing at the 2011 Open Badminton Tournament, which kicked off in Denmark on October 18.

Some of the best golfers from Asia have arrived in South Korea to compete at the $750,000 C.J. Invitational hosted by Players Championship winner K.J. Choi.

Vietnam took the lead at the Southeast Asian Vovinam Championships in Cambodia over the weekend, with nine gold and 10 silver medals.

Roger Federer has dropped out of the top three in the ATP rankings for the 1st time since just before winning the 1st of his 16 Grand Slam titles.

Twenty-year-old Phan Thi Ha Thanh won a bronze medal in the pommel horse event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

The Vietnamese national women’s football team left for Laos on Friday to take part in the 2011 ASEAN Football Federation Women's Championship.

Nguyen Thanh Tung of Vietnam took home a gold medal today at the World Wushu Championship taking place in Turkey.

Wayne Rooney has been banned for three matches by UEFA for his red card against Montenegro.

Super International Grand chess master Le Quang Liem left Ho Chi Minh City to attend the SPICE Cup in the US from October 15-25.

France survived a tense night at Stade de France to send Laurent Blanc's side to Euro 2012 after drawing 1-1 with Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Vietnam’s U19 women team was defeated by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea team in the 2011 Asia U-19 Women’s Football Championships.

Vietnamese junior Nguyen Hoang Thien won the men's singles and doubles titles at the Hong Kong Open Junior Tennis Championships on Saturday.

Germany's Sebastian Vettel became Formula One's youngest back-to-back world champion on Sunday when he finished third in the Japanese Grand Prix.