CULTURE AND SPORT

At least two people were killed and dozens injured when a vintage aircraft crashed into the ground at an air show in the US state of Nevada, officials and reports said.

Chairmen of Vietnam’s top football teams met to discuss measures to heighten the quality of the country’s top-tier V-league.

A strong 6.6-magnitude undersea quake and a series of aftershocks hit off the coast of Japan's Honshu island, geologists said.

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner went into exceptional talks with European finance ministers on the debt crisis on Friday.

Model Ngoc Thach, the winner of Vietnam Supermodel Contest 2010, will represent the country at the 11th Miss Earth to be held in Thailand.

NTC fighters regrouped for a new assault on Moamer Kadhafi's hometown Sirte, remaining upbeat despite suffering heavy losses.

The Singapore stock exchange has approved an application by English football giants Manchester United to sell their shares in the city-state, a source said.

Vietnam lost 0-3 to Laos in the second match of Group F qualifiers for the 2012 AFC U-16 Championship.

Spain's San Sebastian international film festival opens Friday supplying a dose of terror and comedy, with a clutch of Asian films in the running for top prize.

The EU moved closer to toughening budget rules to punish overspenders after the EU Parliament and governments reached a compromise.

The United States won the World Cup's 'cold war' against Russia as the All Blacks' injury toll took a sudden turn for the worse.

String quartet Diotima, featuring musical talents from France, will hit the capital's stage on September 22.

Swiss banking giant UBS revealed an estimated loss of $2 billion after the discovery of unauthorised trading at its investment bank.

Researchers in Australia said they had discovered that dolphin colonies living around Melbourne are a species unlike any other in the world.

Emerging economies "could help to temporarily reduce this moment of volatility but it won't resolve the problem" of structural weaknesses in the eurozone, analysts say.

Authorities in Quang Binh decided to fine the organiser of a charity event VND3.5 million for singers who wore skimpy costumes.

Facebook is letting members follow strangers Twitter-style in the latest of a barrage of data maelstrom-taming moves since rival social network Google+ launched in June.

A key US government report spreads the blame for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, citing a bad cement job, poor management by BP and its subcontractors.

Vietnamese martial artists have won three gold medals, three silvers and six bronzes at the pre-Southeast Asian Games Kempo Shorinji Tournament.