CULTURE AND SPORT

Microsoft and Toyota will work together to infuse the Japanese auto maker's cars with digital capabilities hosted in the Internet "cloud."

Japan was rattled by a strong aftershock and tsunami warning nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast.

European finance ministers face a point of no return as they gather in Hungary for talks derailed by Portugal's sudden admission it needs an emergency bailout.

President Barack Obama called crunch Oval Office talks with Washington's most powerful Republican, seeking to break a budget stalemate.

China will allow Thailand to keep for two more years a giant panda cub with millions of fans and her own reality television show in the kingdom.

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's coast, the northern part of Sumatra island, in the evening of April 6.

Data from a major US atom smasher lab may have revealed a new elementary particle, or potentially a new force of nature.

Portugal said it had finally decided to request financial assistance from the European Union, paving the way for a third bailout of a eurozone country.

Drug resistance fuelled partly by misuse of antibiotics is killing thousands of people, the World Health Organisation warned.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's trial on charges of sex with an alleged under-age prostitute and abuse of power opened in Milan.

President Barack Obama made a dramatic intervention in a budget row that could paralyze the US government.

World anger over bloodshed in Yemen and pressure on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to stand down mounted after at least 24 people were killed.

In the dry wording of prosecution documents, sex parties at Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi's villa followed a well scripted routine drawing in erotic dancers and underage prostitutes.

Japan imposed a legal limit for radioactive iodine in fish, as the operator of Fukushima nuclear plant pumped toxic water into the Pacific Ocean for a second day.

Michel Martelly, a carnival singer with a colorful past, is Haiti's new president after storming to a landslide victory, preliminary results showed.

In the Barry Bonds trial, prosecutors said they had a recording of Bonds' surgeon discussing Bonds and steroids with the slugger's ex-business manager.

Vietnamese audience will have the opportunity to enjoy the first Hollywood 3D cartoon dubbed in Vietnamese “Rio” as from April 8.

French and UN helicopters fired at the Ivory Coast presidential palace and bases of strongman Laurent Gbagbo.

President Barack Obama urged supporters to rebuild the energetic grass-roots powerbase in a subdued launch to his 2012 reelection bid.