CULTURE AND SPORT

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday announced his resignation as president of the Democratic Party of Japan.

Liverpool will set up football training establishments around the globe in the next three years, with priority given to some Asian countries including India, Malaysia and Vietnam.

A powerful remote-controlled bicycle bomb exploded at a busy northwestern Pakistan hotel on Thursday, killing at least 11 people, wounding 14 and destroying the building.

Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will buy $5 billion in preferred shares of the Bank of America, the bank said.

World governments should do more to help the 12 million stateless people, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said.

Vietnamese stars Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son are set to leave for Russia on August 25 to take part in the World Chess Cup.

The El Nino climate cycle doubles the risk of civil wars in 90 tropical countries, researchers reported on Wednesday.

After months of unrelieved gloom and discord, Congress and President Barack Obama are starting to make a dent in the federal budget deficit.

China has banned websites from featuring 100 songs by artists from Lady Gaga to the Backstreet Boys, according to the culture ministry's website.

Liverpool cruised into the League Cup third round with a 3-1 win over minnows Exeter City.

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.