CULTURE AND SPORT

Michael Phelps broke his gold medal drought in Shanghai with a 200m butterfly win to claim his 3rd straight world title in his favourite event.

Heavy rain sent landslides barreling through Seoul and a northern town in South Korea, killing 17 and leaving at least 3 missing, officials said.

The New Vietnam Circus interprets the daily life of a traditional village through a mixture of acrobatics, juggling and music at the Grande Halle de La Villette in Paris.

The White House and its divided Republican foes clashed but failed to break an impasse that could see the US default on its debt.

Le Quang Liem won a memorable victory over former Dortmund champion Ponomariov in the 5th game of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting.

Seventy-eight people were killed when a Moroccan military aircraft crashed into a mountain in the south of the country, the army says.

Pianist Nguyen Bich Tra and young male baritone Nguyen Hai Dang will perform ‘Piano & Voice’ as part of a classical night in HCM City.

The Dak Lak team came out on top at the 7th National Sports Festival for Ethnic Minorities which closed in the central province of Quang Nam.

Japan announced a plan under which beef tainted with radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster will be bought up and burnt.

Michael Jackson's mother and four siblings plannned a star-studded tribute concert for the late pop icon, but two other Jacksons don't agree.

US President Barack Obama stepped up the pressure on Republicans over the US debt crisis, scheduling a rare primetime speech.

Top Vietnamese badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh returned to his No 7 world ranking after successfully completing the US Open Tournament.

Vietnamese chess star Le Quang Liem had a good start at the 2011 Sparkassen Chess-Meeting in Germany by two draws with leading world rivals.

Japan's Honda Motor said Monday it would recall about 200,000 passenger cars globally due to defective engine parts.

Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples excitedly became the first to tie the knot as a New York state law took effect.

Cadel Evans' historic Tour de France win was hailed Monday as one of Australia's finest ever sporting achievements.

A Guinean woman who has accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of trying to rape her in a New York hotel has broken her silence.

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik appears before an Oslo judge on Monday, seeking show-trial celebrity.

The White House and top lawmakers have struggled for a deal to save the world's richest country from a disastrous default on its debt.