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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.

The world's top economies seek Thursday to reach a deal to boost food security by limiting market speculation.

Women need to beware that while breast implants are safe, they could lead to problems later on, the top US drug agency said.

President Barack Obama ordered all 33,000 US surge troops home from Afghanistan by next summer, declared the beginning of the end of the war.

Japan issued a tsunami warning after a magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck in the country's northeast, rattling the areas hit by the March 11 quake.

The 17th Southeast Asian Youth Table Tennis Championships opened in the northern province of Hai Duong on June 22.

The 17th Southeast Asian Youth Table Tennis Championships opened in the northern province of Hai Duong on June 22.

The new Greek government got to grips fast with massive EU-IMF imposed budget reforms to stave off a wider eurozone debt crisis.

American Japanese violin hero Goto Ryu will perform a Paganini night at the Hanoi Opera House on Friday and Saturday, reports VietnamPlus.

President Barack Obama will order his promised US troop drawdown from Afghanistan in a prime time address Wednesday.