CULTURE AND SPORT

The regime of Libya's Moamer Kadhafi has accepted an African Union peace plan designed to the end the current conflict.

A surge in food prices has prompted criticism of US subsidies for ethanol, which diverts corn from global food supplies.

NATO has destroyed key ammunition stockpiles and armoured vehicles in recent airstrikes, while Moamer Kadhafi's loyalists pushed rebels back. 

A dramatic eleventh-hour deal slashing spending staved off a US government shutdown, ending a rancorous budget row.

More than 50 paintings and sketches by the late Vietnamese song-writer Trinh Cong Son will come to HCMC Fine Arts Museum on Saturday.

Tiger Woods roared into contention at the 75th Masters by displaying the long-absent form that made him a 14-time major champion.

Heavy fighting broke out in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata with four civilians killed, as loyalist forces sought to dislodge rebels.

Thirty years after Dudley Moore brought the world "Arthur," Russell Brand breathes new life into the drunken playboy.

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.