CULTURE AND SPORT

Malaria costs Africa USD12 billion a year in lost productivity, an expense that businesses can reduce by investing in prevention schemes.

The next round of UN climate talks in South Africa must not be a talking shop, but push for concrete decisions.

Workers entered a reactor building at Japan's stricken nuclear plant Thursday for the first time since an explosion hit the facility.

Intelligence seized from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan showed his Al-Qaeda network pondered strikes on US trains.

International powers agreed on a new fund to aid Libyan rebels, meeting stiff resistance in their battle to oust strongman Moamer Kadhafi.

International talks on Libya in Rome promise to be all about the money as global powers seek ways of channelling credit to Libya's rebels.

The official selection at Cannes will consist of 20 films, organisers announced Wednesday.

Stress tests on nuclear power stations in the European Union will start in June, EU president Hungary announced Wednesday.

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.