CULTURE AND SPORT

President Barack Obama's Republican foes in the US House of Representatives muscled their politically risky budget to passage Friday.

Fighting raged in the long-besieged rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata on Friday and Moamer Kadhafi's hometown was reportedly hit by NATO.

One of the most looked-forward to musical events of the year, this year’s Cama Festival is heralding the coming summer with hot performances.

The embattled operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant promised an initial one million yen in compensation to each family living close to the facility.

A Libyan future including Moamer Kadhafi is "unthinkable" and would represent an "unconscionable betrayal" by the rest of the world.

The Cherry-blossom or Genki Festival 2011 will take place in Hanoi on April 16-17.

Global finance chiefs moved to aid strife-torn North Africa as the IMF and WB warned of more potential social unrest from high food prices.

BP was facing angry protesters and disgruntled shareholders on Thursday at its first annual general meeting since an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Movie-goers flocked to see what is billed as the world's first 3D porn film as it opened to packed cinemas across Hong Kong on Thursday.

Japan's seismologists were so entrenched in outdated beliefs about seismic hazard that they became blinkered to the risk of the March 11 quake, the journal Nature charged.

One of the leading French pianists, Roger Muraro, will perform in Hanoi and HCM City on April 23 and 26 2011.

World powers offered cash to Libya's rebels and the means "to defend themselves" as they issued fresh demands for Moamer Kadhafi to relinquish power.

US President Barack Obama unveiled a $4 trillion deficit reduction drive on Wednesday and savaged Republican plans that he said would reward the rich.

The United States has turned to oversized puppets in Pakistan by funding a $20 million remake of popular children's TV programme Sesame Street.

Philex Mining Corp. said its international oil exploration affiliate has found encouraging oil and gas flow rates in Block 07/03 offshore Vietnam.

Scientists have for the first time shown a link between intensifying climate events and tectonic plate movement.

Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak has been placed in detention for 15 days, shortly after his two sons had also been detained.

US President Barack Obama is set to try and wrest control of Washington's fevered debate over the economy and bulging deficit.

A leading climate scientist warned that Europe should take action over increasing drought and floods.