CULTURE AND SPORT

Intel Corporation reported record-high earnings as the company shipped more chips than ever despite talk of a gloomy global computer market.

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.

Goldman Sachs, weighed down by problems in its private equity portfolio and the broader global economic woes, reported a loss of $428 million.

Cross-border attacks emanating from Pakistan against US-led forces in Afghanistan have increased after Osama bin Laden's death, the Pentagon said.

Vietnam’s Truong Tung Lan on Saturday finished in the top 15 at the 38th Miss Asia Pacific International in Seoul, Korea.

British billionaire Richard Branson opened the world's first-ever commercial spaceport in the New Mexico desert, the new home for his company.

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

Buses carrying 477 Palestinian prisoners were headed for Gaza and the West Bank under a swap deal to free captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Vehicles carrying Palestinian prisoners began departing from jails in Israel, setting in motion a phased prisoner exchange.

The Thai premier said reconstruction from massive floods swamping vast swathes of the country is expected to cost the government over $3.3 billion.

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.

A singer has lodged a petition against eight websites for allowing their visitors to illegally download songs from her latest album.

Samsung Electronics said it is trying to block the sale of Apple's newest iPhone in Japan and Australia.

The death toll from rains and mudslides across Central America rose to at least 80, officials said.

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

Global food price volatility will be the focus of World Food Day celebrations in Rome which will also address the issue of massive farmland purchases by rich countries.

Chinese state media say that a tourist bus carrying many elderly passengers has overturned on a winding highway in southern China, leaving 10 people dead and 33 injured.

9 were killed as Syrian security forces pressed a crackdown on political dissent in protests against Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Hundreds camped out in London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam after clashes in New York and Rome in worldwide protests.