CULTURE AND SPORT

Blasts and anti-aircraft fire rattled the Libyan capital as France hailed the allied air raids against Moamer Kadhafi's forces.

Europe's leaders head into a crucial summit, torn over the military campaign in Libya and facing a political crisis in Portugal.

Australia, Canada and Singapore joined a list of countries shunning Japanese food imports.

Libyan forces hammered rebel cities with tank fire as a top British officer said Moamer Kadhafi's air force had been almost obliterated.

Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor, famed for her glamorous but stormy love life as well as her five-decade Oscar-winning film career, died at age 79.

Japan said the cost of rebuilding the country after its biggest recorded earthquake could be as much as USD309 billion.

Legendary Hollywood actress and violet-eyed beauty Elizabeth Taylor died on Wednesday aged 79.

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova believes Roger Federer will struggle to regain his world number one ranking.

Hundreds of campers stranded by floods and landslides in Australia were waiting to be rescued after roads were washed out by freakish weather.

Travellers could soon be able surf in Bali, shop in Singapore and cruise the Mekong in Vietnam-all on a single tourist visa.

Tokyo warned that radioactive iodine over twice the safe level for infants had been detected in its tap water due to impacts of recent earthquake.

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi defiantly claimed that his country is "ready for battle," while Western leaders Wednesday planned their next steps.

MegaStar Media Ltd. Co. announced it would screen “Rio”, the first U.S. 3D film dubbed in Vietnamese, at theatres across the country on April. 8.

A fast, sleek new version of Firefox was released to vie Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 and Google Chrome in the market for Web browsing software.

Fighting raged in Libya, amid reports Moamer Kadhafi may be looking for a way out of the conflict.

Moammar Gadhafi's forces shelled rebels regrouping outside a strategic eastern city on Tuesday. An American fighter jet crashed, both crew ejecting safely.

Rock legend Lou Reed and composer Philip Glass will perform next month in New York at a half-day concert to benefit victims of Japan's devastating earthquake.

Smoke and steam again rose from damaged reactors on Tuesday at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The World Health Organization said Monday that spinach and milk found to have been contaminated with radiation in Japan were safe to eat and drink.