CULTURE AND SPORT

Fallen IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn appeared at a New York court Monday, expected to launch a fight to clear his name.

Former IMF chief arrived at a New York courtroom Monday for a new hearing on charges of sexually assaulting a chambermaid.

A student won first prize at a music contest with his impressive Vietnamese flute and piano performance.

NATO warplanes battered Moamer Kadhafi's command network in Tripoli, it said Monday ahead of a visit to Libya by an envoy from Russia.

Young Hanoians decked themselves out in their finest ‘cosplay’ costumes, paying homage to their manga favourites.

The Malaysian world heritage city of Malacca will be smoke-free from June 15, a first for the country, the health minister said Monday.

Vietnam has entered its bid to host the Asian Games in 2019, according to an official from the Vietnamese Olympic Committee.

The OPEC oil cartel meets in Vienna this week, widely expected to hold production levels unchanged as it balances a weak economic outlook.

The damage bill from massive floods which hit northeastern Australia this year will likely be US$7.3 billion, an official said.

It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards.

An outbreak of killer E. coli that has spread to 12 countries and killed 19 people may be linked to a Hamburg festival in May, according to new reports.   

The former U.S. senator was charged with using $925,000 in under-the-table campaign contributions to hide his pregnant mistress during his 2008 run for president.

Climate change is on track to disrupt lifeline food crops across large swathes of Africa and Asia already mired in chronic poverty, a study said.

Cuban artists will perform at the 2011 Sea Festival in Nha Trang from June 11-16.

A bomb outside a mosque in central Iraq followed by a suicide attack against a hospital where victims were being treated killed at least 21 people.

Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when dissidents shelled a mosque in the presidential compound.

Thousands of residents were fleeing the Yemeni capital on Friday as deadly clashes between dissident tribesmen and loyalist troops raged.

US aerospace giant Boeing is under "continuous" cyber attack but there has been no breach of its databases, a senior executive said.

Vietnam will begin constructing its largest badminton centre in Hanoi by late this year, said an official from the Vietnam Badminton Federation.