CULTURE AND SPORT

New York's attorney general will oppose Bank of America Corp's $8.5 billion settlement over repurchasing toxic mortgage loans.

Several stars have been accused of trying to take advantage of scandal as a way to become famous, but fans find it ‘boring’.

NASA scientists announced Thursday that they had found the first evidence of flowing water on Mars.

Hoa Phat Hanoi Football Club may be punished following their reaction to several refereeing decisions.

The European Union said the debt crisis is now striking at the heart of the eurozone and the central bank threw out lifelines on Thursday.

Debt, growth and credit ratings dominated markets which rallied slightly as the European Central Bank faces up to a new eurozone crisis.

Vietnam plans to send a 800-member sporting delegation to the upcoming 26th Southeast Asian Games to be held in Indonesia from November 11-22.

An organic food boom in Germany is creating demand for flour ground the old way, but the country only has one person left with the carving skills.

China has arrested around 2,000 people and closed nearly 5,000 businesses in a major crackdown on illegal food additives, the government said.

Former Japan international Naoki Matsuda, 34, died Thursday, two days after suffering a cardiac arrest during training, his club said.

Seventy-two people have been charged with participating in an international child pornography network using an online bulletin board.

Trying to make up for lost time, President Barack Obama plunged back into his re-election campaign Wednesday.

The Korean Cultural Centre in Vietnam will launch a singing contest named “K-POP” in the country.

The US, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee have been targets of a global cyber spying campaign, security firm McAfee said.

China warned Wednesday that tortured efforts to raise the US limit on borrowing had failed to defuse Washington's "debt bomb".

The harsh drought ravaging the Horn of Africa is likely to worsen and could trigger famine in more regions of Somalia, aid groups warned.

A Vietnamese Bellydance team achieved three 1st prizes at the Asia Bellydance 2011 Competition.

Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak goes on trial Wednesday on murder and corruption charges that could see him hanged.

Google is a latecomer to social networking but its new site, Google+, is growing much more rapidly than Facebook, Myspace and Twitter, experts said.