CULTURE AND SPORT

Russia announced a delay in the planned launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station on March 30 due to a technical problem.

Legendary American singer Bob Dylan, whose songs became anthems of the 1960s anti-Vietnam War era, will play his first concert in the country.

Vietnam's carom ace will be playing Turkey's Cenet Lutfi and Tayfun Tasdemir in the World Championship Team 3-Cushion Championship in Germany.

The 1st international football festival for young people was opened on March 12, at Vietnam Football Youth Training Centre, in Hanoi.

A film entitled “Fate of a Songstress in Thang Long” won the prize for best film in 2010 at Vietnam’s Golden Kite Awards.

Nicaraguan-American disc jockey Craze, a six-time winner of the World DJ Championship, will perform in Hanoi this week.

Nick Watney arrived at the USD8.5 million Cadillac Championship one of the hottest players in golf.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. says 3 workers have been injured and 7 are missing after an explosion at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.

Soldiers warned that another tsunami could hit, as an explosion rocked the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

The death toll in Japan's earthquake and tsunami will likely exceed 10,000 in one state alone.

Millions of Japanese were without drinking water or electricity Sunday, two days after a powerful earthquake and tsunami hammered the northeastern coast.

A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago.

Japan desperately tried to bring an overheating nuclear reactor under control on Sunday.

South Africa's AIDS deaths have fallen by nearly 25 percent due to scaled up access to life-saving drugs, new research has shown.

Russell Westbrook scored his 4,000th career point as he helped Oklahoma City notch a 104-94 NBA victory over Detroit.

The combined number of people who have died or are unaccounted for after the earthquake in Japan is feared to top 1,700.

Japan warned that one of its nuclear plants may be in meltdown after a quake and tsunami wiped out a swathe of the northeast.

Eurozone leaders agreed to boost defences against a destabilising debt crisis stalking weaker members by strengthening a debt rescue fund.

YouTube on Friday began showing what it said was the first feature-length Hollywood movie created specifically for the Internet.