CULTURE AND SPORT

A bomb planted by suspected Islamic militants exploded at a filling station in Pakistan's Punjab province, killing at least 20 people and wounding 127 others.

Critics have tipped one of the many historical films nominated to win this year's national Golden Kite awards.

President Barack Obama has lifted a ban on new military trials for Guantanamo Bay terror suspects.

An exhibition that opened in Hanoi on March 7 will bring the lives of single mothers, living in an outlying district, into focus.

Charlie Sheen has been sacked from the hit TV series "Two and a Half Men" after slamming its producers in outbursts.

Moamer Kadhafi's regime accused the United States, Britain and France of "a conspiracy to divide Libya" Monday.

US astronauts awoke to actor William Shatner's voice and theme music to the movie Star Trek on their final day at the International Space Station.

Jacques Chirac became the first former French president to go on trial as a court heard charges he embezzled public funds while he was mayor of Paris.

World oil prices shot higher Monday, striking 2.5 year highs on the turmoil in Libya and the Middle East, analysts said.

For tourists the Philippine island of Palawan seems like paradise, but for environment activists it feels more akin to a battlefield.

China aims to "basically eradicate poverty" by 2020 while greatly raise its poverty line, in order to help more people in need, Premier Wen Jiabao said.

A film named Inferno or Giao Lo Dinh Menh was omitted from the Golden Kite film competition because of “piracy suspicions”.

Japan's PM Naoto Kan is now "on the edge of a cliff" after his foreign minister quit over a funding scandal, newspapers said.

The closing ceremony for the 2011 Vietnam Professional Windsurfers Association Grand Slam was held in Binh Thuan.

The unbridled manufacture and use of pesticides in Asia is raising the spectre of "pest storms" devastating the region's rice farms, scientists have warned.

Revelry took over Rio's streets as the Carnival kicked into high gear, while extra police ensured the safety of those participating in the event

Thirty-one lecturers from the Vietnam University of Fine Arts are displaying their best works at an exhibition entitled ‘Beginning a New-year Writing’ in Hanoi.

Aliens exist, and we have proof. That astonishingly awesome claim comes from Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA.

Moamer Kadhafi's forces were accused of a massacre during an assault on a key city Saturday, as rebels pushed towards Tripoli.