CULTURE AND SPORT

Europe's debt drama shifted from Greece to Italy as the eurozone's third economy came under pressure from the markets.

Conservationists warned that moves to restrict tiger tourism in India to protect the endangered big cats would have the opposite effect.

Greek political chiefs sought Monday to put the finishing touches to a unity government and appoint a new leader.

Former world number one Tiger Woods on Monday said he was starting to enjoy golf again after a spate of injuries.

Greek political chiefs were scrambling to form a unity government, name a new PM and call early elections as they struggled to escape a debt crisis under intense international pressure.

A culture and tourism week themed “Crossing Viet Bac heritage regions” will be held in the northern province of Bac Kan from November 6-9.

Mudslides in western Colombia after days of heavy rain killed at least 36 people at the weekend and dozens are still missing, according to an updated official toll.

Qatar's PM called for Arab states to meet next Saturday to weigh Syria's failure to implement a deal struck with the Arab League to end bloodshed.

Miss Venezuela, Ivian Sarcos, was crowned the 2011 winner of the Miss World beauty pageant on Sunday in London.

A breakthrough in Greece's political stalemate seemed likely as the opposition leader said a deal on a unity government was possible if PM Papandreou resigns.

The nationwide death toll from flooding in Thailand climbed past 500 as the polluted black water continued its march through northern Bangkok.

The Vietnamese team failed to score in their match against Myanmar, although it played with one more team member than their opponents from the 59th minute. 

At least 150 people died in a "heinous" wave of gun and bomb attacks in northern Nigeria that were on Saturday claimed by the Islamist Boko Haram sect.

French rapper and jazz artist Kad Achouri will perform at the French Cultural Centre in Hanoi on November 15.

Italy's Carolina Kostner and Artur Gachinski of Russia grabbed the lead at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Cup.

Forty-five miners trapped underground after a rock blast in a Chinese coal mine were brought to the surface, CCTV state television reported.

Greece was to begin talks on forming an emergency government to drag itself out of political stalemate.

Harmful carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels made their biggest ever annual jump in 2010, showed the US Department of Energy's world data.

Greek PM George Papandreou won a nail-biting confidence vote in parliament early Saturday after vowing to start talks to form a government of national unity in the crisis-hit country.