CULTURE AND SPORT

European Union finance ministers met on Friday to thrash out the terms of a multi-billion dollar loan to Portugal.

Libyan insurgents and civilians stampeded out of Ajdabiya, hours after a rebel armoured unit was hit by apparent NATO friendly fire.

The United States slipped closer to a government shutdown as President Barack Obama failed to cut a deal on spending ahead of a Friday deadline.

3D TV is growing at a slow pace, but experts remain optimistic that it could overhwelm the small screen.

Being exposed to highway pollution can cause brain damage in mice akin to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease, US researchers said.

Authorities say a strong aftershock that hit Japan's tsunami-battered northeast has killed two people and injured 132.

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.