CULTURE AND SPORT

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

The Libyan capital saw its first major gunbattle since Moammar Gadhafi fled Tripoli more than two months ago.

French contemporary jazz trio Cedric Hanriot will make their debut in Vietnam with a performance in HCM City next Tuesday.

More than 100 artists from 15 ca tru (ceremonial singing) clubs from across the country are attending the National Ca Tru Festival in Hanoi.

Finance ministers from the G20 bloc of leading economies gathered in Paris for tense pre-summit talks.

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

A court Friday turned down Apple's bid to have Samsung give it advance warning of any new product launches in Australia.

Four people survived a fiery plane crash in dense forest in Papua New Guinea in which 28 are feared to have died, Australian officials said on Friday.

The National Cinema Center will put into operation a four dimension (4D) project room later this month.

The bravery of Vietnamese naval forces during the war will be presented at a film festival commemorating 50 years of the Ho Chi Minh Trail at Sea.

British oil giant BP and its partners have won government approval for a major £4.5-billion oil field investment in northern Scotland.

The world has become more vulnerable to outbreaks of disease caused by contaminated food because of growing global trade, the WHO said.

The beloved king of the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan married his commoner bride Thursday in an ancient Buddhist ceremony at the country's most sacred monastery fortress.

EBay set the stage for shops large and small to tap into Internet age techniques for taking payments with PayPal technology at the heart of cashless transactions.

China is to invest up to 4 trillion yuan ($600 billion) over the next decade to overcome a huge water shortage, a senior official.

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.

The International Energy Agency said it was cutting its oil demand estimates again as the global economic outlook darkens.

Pianists from many countries will join talented pianists from across Vietnam to perform at the first-ever piano festival, to be held in HCM City.

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.