CULTURE AND SPORT

Vietnam’s kitesurfing team, the KINN team will compete at Pranburi, Thailand for round four of the Kiteboard Tour Asia championships.

Nokia said Friday it was slashing jobs and joining forces with US giant Microsoft in a major strategy shake-up that left investors disappointed.

China's government has ordered a renewed crackdown on child abductions after an online effort to reunite parents with their lost children.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's Twitter and LiveJournal accounts have been named the best blogs of the Russian-language internet in 2011.

Lampard believes England's future will be brighter after many of Fabio Capello's new selections made a big impact in friendly victory over Denmark.

A museum in London is throwing caution to the wind for an exhibition on sex in the animal kingdom complete with copulating chimps and randy rabbits.

Obama stressed the need for a meaningful and lasting political transition in Egypt in a telephone call with key ally King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

A large swathe of the US South and Midwest still digging out from last week's huge snowfall faced more wintry weather Wednesday.

Vietnamese star Nguyen Hoang Thien sealed a spot to the last four round at the 2011 Tennis Central 18 & U ITF Summer Championships

The mother of missing six-year-old twins fought back tears Wednesday as she made an emotional plea on Italian television.

Colombia's FARC guerrillas set free the first of five promised hostages as they began the most significant release of President Juan Manuel Santos' tenure.

The United States is facing "heightened" threats of attacks from extremists, the head of US homeland security told lawmakers.

The largest painting of Uncle Ho’s testament, written on palm leaf made by artisan Vo Van Tang, has been entered in the Vietnam Guinness Book of Records.

For Valentine’s Day, impress your partner with romantic dining, accommodation and gifts.

Egypt's embattled regime warned of a military crackdown as massive protests demanding its overthrow spilled out across the country.

ASEAN has urged Thailand and Cambodia to return to negotiations following cross-border fire exchanges that claimed casualties.

Pakistan's ministers on Wednesday submitted their resignations to the prime minister as part of plans to appoint a smaller cabinet.

Military officers from North and South Korea Wednesday ended two days of talks without reaching agreement, Yonhap news agency reported.

Many images from the Vietnam War feature in a new museum exhibit in Paris focusing on Associated Press photographer Henri Huet.