CULTURE AND SPORT

Nelson Mandela Foundation's launched a clothing line featuring garments marked with "46664", the anti-apartheid hero's prison number, as part of a fundraising campaign to counter HIV.

NASA has boosted its cost estimate of a major telescope project to 8.7 billion dollars, even as lawmakers have threatened to slash the space agency's budget, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Vietnam’s national football team has jumped from 144th to 129th in the August rankings, the International Federation of Association Football announced.

Hurricane Irene looked set to become a major storm as it roared up from the Caribbean.

After two years performing across the globe, Kat Parsons has made her way back to Park Lounge of the Park Hyatt Hotel Saigon.

Some 8.7 million different species exist on Earth, though a tiny amount of those have actually been discovered and catalogued, researchers said.

A US judge on Tuesday dismissed all sex crime charges against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

After bursting into the Bab Azizia compound from which Kadafi ruled, euphoric fighters burn his meeting tent and drive his golf cart.

Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed Vietnam will now be added to the list of potential Manchester United Far East tour destinations.

Major ratings agency Moody's Investors Service downgraded Japan's sovereign debt rating by one notch Wednesday.

Tens of millions of people from Georgia to Canada were jolted by the strongest earthquake to strike the East Coast since World War II.

English interpretations will be available through headphones for the first time for non-Vietnamese speakers in Hanoi.

Superstars Jay-Z and Kanye West employed extreme tactics to ensure their new album did not fall victim to the online leak.

The UK’s leading football team, Manchester United, has signed a three-year partnership with Beeline, Vietnam’s mobile telecoms company.

German police said they had recovered dozens of stolen artworks by European masters valued at around 1.6 million euros with the help of the married couple behind the scam.

Having once been the major power in European and world club football, Italy is rapidly becoming the sick man of Europe in footballing terms.

Moammar Kadafi's whereabouts remain a mystery, but his tanks and snipers take positions in areas of the capital.  

The 9th Hoi An-Japan cultural exchange festival opened on Saturday in Hoi An with art activities from the two countries.

Tiger Woods has fallen further in the latest golf world rankings and is now down in 35th place.