CULTURE AND SPORT

More than 600 athletes, coaches and officials took part in a ceremony to send off Vietnam's 26th Southeast Asian Games squad on October 31.

Vietnam is to feature in a popular English-language travel programme on Bulgarian national television called No Luggage.

The US said on Monday it had stopped funding UNESCO following its vote to grant the Palestinians full membership.

China said it successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday to carry out a key docking mission, taking its next step towards the goal of building its first space station by 2020.

The Vietnam-Japan Rock Festival 2011 themed “Go! Go! Japan!” will be held in Hanoi on December 3.

Japan on Monday intervened in currency markets for the first time since August to weaken the yen.

Students in Hanoi and those from other countries living in the city held an impressive Halloween night on October 29.

Air pollution in Beijing reached "hazardous" levels on Monday, the US embassy said, as thick smog blanketed the city for the third day running.

German man Thomas Dold, the world’s defending champion of vertical run, crowned the title today at the 178m vertical race in Ho Chi Minh City.

The Philippines welcomed one of the world's symbolic "seven billionth" babies on Monday.

The United States plans to bolster its military presence in the Gulf after the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq announced by President Barack Obama, The New York Times reported.

The Arab League has proposed a plan of "concrete steps" to end the bloodshed in Syria and expects President Bashar al-Assad to respond on Monday, Qatar's foreign minister said.

About 70,000 stranded passengers were desperately hoping Australia's workplace regulator would end the stunning grounding of Qantas Airways' entire fleet,

Robin van Persie’s hat-trick helped Arsenal secure an astonishing 5-3 victory at Chelsea as the Gunners surged back into the race for a top-four spot.

Manchester City maintained its five-point English Premier League lead with a 3-1 win over Wolves as rivals Manchester United claimed a 1-0 win at Everton.

Farms on which cash crops like coffee share soil with food-crops like bananas could be vital to the future of central Africa's volatile Great Lakes region, scientists said.

Everton manager David Moyes is bracing for a Manchester United backlash as the Premier League champions attempt to bounce back.

Commonwealth leaders met to thrash out key reform proposals, but a contentious human rights plan appeared deadlocked.

Floods that have sparked an exodus from the Thai capital crept closer to the city centre as the government considered cutting through roads blocking the path of the water.