CULTURE AND SPORT

The eurozone is preparing for the worst in the Greek debt crisis and will cope even if Athens defaults on its loans, German Finance Minister said.

Brazil's former food security minister Jose Graziano da Silva became the first Latin American to head the UN's food agency.

At least six people were killed when a big rig truck hauling gravel slammed into the side of a California-bound passenger train in the high desert of Nevada, officials said.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is in Cuba following emergency surgery, is in "critical" but stable condition, Miami's El Nuevo Herald reported.

A small asteroid the size of a tour bus will make an extremely close pass by the Earth on Monday.

Moamer Kadhafi's regime accused NATO of killing 15 more people in strikes on civilian sites in the eastern city of Brega, a claim promptly denied by the alliance.

IAEA is in favour of strengthening checks on nuclear power plants, but how this should be financed was still up in the air, a UN official said.

A total of 60 pictures painted by pupils from 35 primary schools in Hanoi will be showcased in an exhibition from June 25-28.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was negotiating a new bailout worth some 110 billion euros.

US technology giant Apple said Friday it has filed a lawsuit in South Korea claiming Samsung Electronics copied its products.

A photograph of a smirking Billy the Kid, taken outside a New Mexico saloon near to where the famed outlaw was shot dead, could fetch up to $1 million at an auction.

Alzheimer's disease could cause a global cash crunch in coming generations and must be considered a serious fiscal danger, experts said.

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling took her lucrative boy wizard into the digital age, revealing that his adventures will now be sold as e-books.

Europe pledged Thursday to fix a new bailout for Greece by early July, provided Athens rallies parliamentary support for sweeping new cuts.

Composer Quoc Trung expressed his dismay at the state of the Vietnamese music industry in an interview with DTiNews.

AirAsia ordered a record 200 medium-haul Airbus A320neo passenger jets, a deal with a catalogue price of $18.2 billion, both firms said.

G20 agricultural ministers reached a consensus on measures to improve food security, a US ofifcial said.

A conference on maritime security in the East Sea was held in Washington, USA, on June 20-21, in the context of escalating tension in this area.

The United States reached their fourth consecutive CONCACAF Gold Cup final thanks to a Clint Dempsey goal which secured a 1-0 win for the hosts.