CULTURE AND SPORT

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.

President Barack Obama on Monday formally announced his 2012 re-election bid, saying the country needed "to protect the progress" it had made. 

Japan's nuclear crisis has fuelled public unease in India over ambitious government plans to ramp up nuclear power capacity.

The United States agreed to extend air strikes in Libya into Monday as the oil town of Brega saw heavy fighting.

A quake with magnitude of 7.1 struck off Java island of Indonesia on the early morning of Apr. 4, with no immediate report of damage or casualty.

Novak Djokovic has done it again, defeating world number one Rafael Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) to win the ATP Miami Masters crown.

Japanese business confidence is set to plunge in the months following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis, the Bank of Japan said.

The French army took over Ivory Coast's main airport on Sunday as recognised leader Alassane Ouattara came under fire for a massacre in the west. 

Three nights of short films is being organized in Hanoi, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City from April 1 to 9 by the French Cultural Center and Wallonie-Bruxelles Delegation in Vietnam. 

Heavy artillery fire and explosions shook central Abidjan, as rival forces were accused of massacring hundreds in western Ivory Coast.