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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.

Vietnamese female wrestler Pham Thi Duyen pocketed a silver medal at the 2011 Junior Wrestling World Championship in Bucharest, Romania.

Vietnam won three golds, four silvers and one bronze to be ranked second at the 6th World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Russia.

The top U.S. military officer says American troops must be given protection from legal prosecution as part of any agreement to keep them in Iraq.

Maybe Brodrick Bunkley's stay in Denver will last longer than his trip to Cleveland.

The boy wizard is going out with a bang as "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2" has surpassed $1 billion in sales.

Crisis legislation to yank the nation past the threat of a historic financial default sped through the House, breaking weeks of deadlock.

Norwegians believe penalties for serious crimes in their country should be tightened in the wake of a shooting and bomb attack that killed 77 people, a poll showed.

The soldiers sleep in tents and protected by high-powered rifles that also ward off the even more dangerous threat of poachers.

International Grand Master Le Quang Liem ranked second at the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting.

Khieu Thi Huyen Trang, winner of Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2010, received the Best Asian Super Model title in the 23rd World Best Model contest.

The Vietnamese Vovinam martial arts delegation has won the second World Vovinam Championships that took place in Ho Chi Minh City.