CULTURE AND SPORT

Internationally-acclaimed jazz band Max.Bab will delight audiences in Hanoi on September 17 and in HCM City 24 hours later.

A Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team slammed into a riverbank moments after takeoff Wednesday, killing at least 43 people

Thach Kim Tuan won a hat-trick of gold medals and broke two world youth records at the Asian Youth Weightlifting Championship.

US President Barack Obama will propose the injection of $300 billion into the sputtering US economy to create jobs, US media are reporting.

A video exhibition which explores the power of unhappy memories will open at Goethe Institute Hanoi on September 10.

The European Central Bank will this week call a halt to its recent cycle of rising interest rates, analysts predicted.

Vietnam's Grandmaster Le Quang Liem was defeated by Cuban rival Lazaro Bruzon Batista in a tie-breaker in the 3rd round of the 2011 World Chess Cup.

Defending champions Spain and fellow European giants Italy secured their places at Euro 2012 on Tuesday.

David Petraeus pledged to confront the many threats facing America as he took the reins of the CIA, a decade after the 9/11 attacks.

Yahoo! announced that Carol Bartz has been removed as chief executive of the struggling Internet company.

The U19 national football squad under coach Trieu Quang Ha has arrived in Myanmar to attend the ASEAN Football Federation U19 Youth Championships.

Australia has disrupted four major terror plots since the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Attorney-General Robert McClelland said.

WB chief Robert Zoellick said that the United States will not sink into another recession, amid widespread worries over the state of the world's biggest economy.

Cueist Ma Xuan Cuong won bronze medal at the carom 3-cushion World Cup in Seoul on September 4.

Moamer Kadhafi is in top health and planning his country's defence, his spokesman said, as new regime fighters voiced concern over civilians trapped in Bani Walid.

Hanoi ACB club and Hoa Phat Hanoi may merge in order for the former to remain in the V-League in the 2012 season.

Famine has spread to a sixth southern Somali region and will likely extend further with 750,000 people at risk of death, the UN has said.

Jacques Chirac's embezzlement trial opens Monday with his lawyers arguing that the French former president is too unwell to attend.

The final round of Sai Mai music competition 2011 wrapped up in the central city of Hue with top prizes being awarded.