CULTURE AND SPORT

Cuba’s daily newspaper, Granma, has written that the US government needs to take responsibility and ease the pain of Agent Orange/dioxin victims.

Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik has been taken back to the island of Utoeya for a police reconstruction of the killing of his 69 victims there.

Bangladesh will import 120,000 tonnes of fuel oil from Vietnam’s Petrolimex, a senior Bangladesh Petroleum Corp official said.

Thai police have filed six charges against three men accused of illegally transporting almost 2,000 dogs to Vietnam to be butchered for human consumption.

The Military team successfully defended their title at the 17th National Youth Karatedo Championships, which concluded in Can Tho City.

Canada and Honduras have signed a free trade agreement as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper concluded his tour of Latin America.

If you are angry that someone spoiled the plot of a movie or revealed the ending of a book, don't be.

US President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed progress towards a security handover from US to Afghan forces by 2014, the White House said.

Police in London said Friday they have charged almost 600 people with violence, disorder and looting over deadly riots in Britain's capital.

Vietnamese-American beauty Pham Thuy Vy Victoria was chosen to represent Vietnam at the Miss World beauty pageant 2011 in London.

Sebastian Coe, chairman of the 2012 Olympic organising committee, expressed confidence Thursday that the riots in the capital over the past week will not tarnish the image of next year's Games.

Asian stocks opened higher Friday after promising U.S. jobs data helped propel Wall Street up.

Despite VND42 billion of funding missing, the 17th film festival to be hosted in Phu Yen Province will open in December.

The Taliban denied Thursday that the fighters responsible for downing a US helicopter, killing 38 people, had been killed.

Nguyen Tien Minh, the world No. 7, won his 2nd round match at the Yonex BWF World Badminton Championships against Parupalli Kashyap of India.

China has suspended all new railway construction projects, as controversy swirls over the nation's high-speed network.

Parliament was to meet for a special session to discuss the worst riots in a generation as Prime Minister David Cameron pledged a fightback.

France and Italy, the eurozone's second- and third-largest economies, were hurriedly preparing deficit-cutting measures Thursday.

Germany's young guns turned on the style to beat Brazil 3-2 on Wednesday with rising star Mario Goetze in dazzling form.