CULTURE AND SPORT

The Asian Youth Orchestra, which comprises 100 best music students in Asia chosen annually by audition, will perform in Hanoi twice next week.

Nearly 10 years after scientists cloned the first cat, predictions of a vast commercial market for the "resurrection" of beloved pets through cloning have fallen flat.

The European Central Bank is ready to buy Spanish and Italian government debt, French Finance Minister Francois Baroin said Monday.

China can be prevented from repeating all 5 titles in the world championships at Wembley arena, said the former world number one from Denmark.

Nam Phan will be the 1st Vietnamese-American athlete to compete at the UFC, a mixed martial arts event comprising boxing, Thai muay and karate.

NATO says it is investigating Taliban claims that they shot down a helicopter killing a team of 30 American troops.

Police in London arrested dozens of people on Sunday after 26 officers were injured in the city's worst riots in years.

The European Central Bank is due to hold emergency talks on whether to start buying Italian debt to contain spreading turmoil on financial markets.

Thirty US troops including special forces died when the Taliban shot down their helicopter, officials said, in the biggest single loss for foreign troops in the decade-long war.

The "Desperate Housewives" of Wisteria Lane might want to get their affairs in order.  

Standard & Poor's has cut the US credit rating for the first time in history.

Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem needs a professional foreign coach to help him develop to a new level, said an official.

NASA on Friday launched the billion-dollar solar-powered spacecraft Juno on a five-year journey to Jupiter.

China said Friday that debt deals in the United States and in Europe would not be enough to save their economies.

International grandmaster Le Quang Liem will leave for Russia to compete at the World Chess Cup in Khanty Mansiysk from August 26-September 21.

China Friday warned millions of people living along its east coast to stay indoors in preparation for the most powerful typhoon in years.

Leading Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has signed a deal to record her first music album, according to music labels.

Vietnamese students, together with others from the region, will join the Southeast Asian Student Documentary Award for the 1st time this year.

Yingluck Shinawatra was confirmed as Thailand's 1st female PM, faced with the daunting challenge of bringing stability to the kingdom.