CULTURE AND SPORT

Serbia announced the arrest of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic on Thursday, ending a 16-year manhunt.

The Vietnam Football Federation’s selection of German coach Falko Goetz has been approved.

Leaders of the world's richest nations begin a summit in France dominated by the Arab Spring, the economy, and Japan's nuclear disaster.

Three explosions including two car blasts struck government buildings in eastern China's Jiangxi province, leaving at least five injured.

The EU raised EUR4.75 billion for Portugal in a new bond issue, while the IMF gave its first tranche of emergency funding as part of a joint bailout.

The 2nd International Comics Festival will be held in Hanoi from May 30 to June 4.

A US astronaut Drew Feustel learned a valuable lesson about being teary-eyed on a spacewalk, NASA said.

Crisis still stalks the global economy with stagflation lurking despite moderate overall recovery, the OECD said.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde launched a bid on Wednesday to head the International Monetary Fund.

An eight-member Australian krump group, Grrilla Step, arrived in Hanoi on May 25 to perform for the youth.

Berlin airports will close as of 0900 GMT Wednesday because of danger posed by ash pouring from an Icelandic volcano.

Central China's worst drought in more than 50 years is drying reservoirs, stalling rice planting, and threatens crippling power shortages.

The death toll from NATO air strikes on Tripoli and its suburbs has risen to 19, Libyan state television reported on Tuesday.  

Online retail titan Amazon.com and bookselling giant Barnes & Noble dueled Tuesday for the devotion of digital book lovers.

US film giant Columbia Pictures has won the US distribution rights for a film about the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The 15-year wait for the return of videogame tough guy "Duke Nukem" will end in June, 2K Games promised on Tuesday.

Rescuers combed through overturned cars and flattened buildings Tuesday hunting for survivors after this Missouri town was struck by one of the strongest US tornadoes ever recorded.

The Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists launched the sixth International Art Photography contest and exhibition in Hanoi.

Airlines halted hundreds of flights on Tuesday after a plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland blew over Britain.