CULTURE AND SPORT

Rapper Tinie Tempah confirmed his rise to the top of the British music industry by winning two Brit Awards at London's O2 Arena.

Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi will go on trial in April over allegations that he paid a 17-year-old girl for sex and used his status to spring her from police custody, a judge ruled.

Oil prices climbed in Asian trade Tuesday, bolstered by continued unrest in the Middle East and North Africa and robust Chinese demand.

Rising food prices have pushed about 44 million people into poverty in developing countries since last June, the World Bank warned.

Fewer than 92,000 couples married in or around Sin City last year. The last time the city of drive-through wedding chapels married fewer people, it was 1993.

The Lim Festival officially opened in northern Bac Ninh province on Feb. 14, drawing around 30,000 visitors.

Egypt on Tuesday called for international support to speed its recovery after its military rulers urged an end to labour strikes that have erupted.

A heart-wrenching documentary about AIDS sufferers in China has won a rapturous reception at the Berlin film festival.

18 sailors were starving on a Vietnamese ship that has been stranded outside India's Chennai port for nearly six months, its captain said.

Google on Monday gave users of its Chrome Web browser the ability to block search results from low-quality websites known as content farms.

A court in Ecuador ordered US oil giant Chevron to pay an estimated USD8 billion in a lawsuit alleging the firm caused environmental damage.

US President Barack Obama unveiled a USD3.73-trillion spending blueprint for 2012 on Monday, including a raft of tax hikes and spending cuts.

Egypt's military government urged a halt to widespread strikes inspired by a popular uprising that threatened to paralyse the country.

Three-time World Footballer of the Year Ronaldo is set to announce his retirement on Monday, Brazilian media said.

An aspiring poet in search of true love. A student who has found it. And a young woman on the cusp of a major life change.

Barack Obama unveils his fiscal 2012 budget, an election year plan forged from conflicting needs to cut spending and stoke the economic recovery.

The Indonesia SEA Games Organizing Committee has announced that female football will not be played at the 26th SEA Games in Indonesia.

Grandmaster Le Quang Liem of Vietnam is taking the lead with five points at the international elite chess tournament Aeroflot Open 2011.

A slowdown in the increase of Kenya's elephant numbers is raising fears among conservationists.