CULTURE AND SPORT

Germany’s Piano Duo D’Accord will give performances in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to celebrate European Days in Vietnam 2011.

Portugal is now the third eurozone country to take up rescue crutches, which will go along with a 78-billion-euro EU-IMF deal to avoid debt default.

Huge objects in the universe distort space and time with the force of their gravity, scientists said.

President Barack Obama decided not to release photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse, citing national security risks.

The embassies of ASEAN member countries in Germany hosted a culinary festival to raise money for Japanese victims of the March 11 earthquake.

Many people may be surprised to know that there are over 300 film theatres in Vietnam, a survey says.

Reducing corruption and improving government accountability are the greatest challenges to making Asia the world's wealthiest region by 2050.

Vietnam’s “Buc Tuong” rock band has won the audience’s applause at a rock festival during the ASEAN Youth Cultural Exchange Festival 2011.

Europe set new targets to halt a mainly man-made loss of species costing billions each year.

Osama bin Laden's death fueled a wealth of comic relief, and crowing from TV's late-night hosts.

The United States revealed that Osama bin Laden was unarmed when US commandos shot him dead.

Twelve Vietnamese taekwondo artists are competing at the World Taekwondo Championships in Gyeongju, the Republic of Korea from May 1-6.

Apple announced that it beefed up its iMac all-in-one desktop computers with powerful new-generation Intel chips and high definition cameras.

The US Holocaust museum has teamed up with Ancestry.com to provide online information about those who were persecuted by the Nazis.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper won re-election at the head of an elusive majority government, television projections showed.

The Vietnamese Student Association in Moscow held an opening ceremony for the Summer 2011 football tournament.

It is only a matter of time before Osama bin Laden's killing by crack US forces is made into a Hollywood film, reports said.

World leaders welcomed the killing of Osama bin Laden but many warned that the war against terrorism was far from over and that al-Qaeda could strike back with renewed vigour.

Pakistan's main Taliban faction threatened to attack Pakistan and the US after the US confirmed that Osama bin Laden had been killed.