CULTURE AND SPORT

The financial cloud hanging over the eurozone darkened, with the euro falling and Italy hit by rising borrowing rates.

The International Olympic Committee said it would examine any evidence of corruption, after one of its members was named in a BBC report targeting three FIFA officials.

Man-made and natural disasters generated worldwide economic losses of 222 billion dollars in 2010, more than three times last year's figure.

The Vietnam football team has been awarded the Labour Order, Third Class, for winning the ASEAN Football Championship-AFF-Suzuki Cup two years ago.

A student armed with a gun was holding 23 children and a teacher hostage in a high school classroom in the small Wisconsin town of Marinette, police said.

Nearly 200 countries gathered under the UN flag and behind tight security for a fresh attempt to craft a treaty to roll back the threat of climate change.

The total number of reported AIDS deaths in China has jumped by nearly 20,000 since an official estimate last year, state media said Monday.

Whistleblower website WikiLeaks unleashed a flood of US cables detailing shocking diplomatic episodes.

A guitar gala celebrating the 30th anniversary of HCM City-based Phu Nhuan Classic Guitar Club will be held at the Phu Nhuan District Cultural Center.

Europe and the IMF finalised Ireland's bailout, warning creditors they will also share the burden of future rescues as Brussels fights market moves on Portugal and Spain.

North Korean artillery was heard Sunday on the frontline South Korean island attacked last week, though no shells landed on the island, South Korea's military said.

US authorities thwarted a plot to blow up a car bomb at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in the western state of Oregon and arrested the suspected Somali-US bomber.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected in Dublin to oppose the government's harsh austerity plan, aimed at slashing the country's budget deficit.

South Korea laid to rest two marines killed in North Korea's artillery strikes, on the eve of massive naval war games with the United States.

Vietnam won another bronze medal on Nov. 26, closing the 16th Asian Games (ASIAD) with one gold, 17 silver and 15 bronze medals.

Synthetic drugs are replacing traditional plant-based narcotics such as heroin and opium across Asia, a United Nations report has warned.

Vietnam will submit a feature, two documentaries, and an animated film to the 54th Asia-Pacific Film Festival – APFF held in Taiwan from Dec. 2-4.

The rescue of three teenagers from the remote Pacific island of Tokelau, who survived on rainwater and a seagull while adrift for 50 days at sea, was hailed Friday as a "miracle".

President Lee Myung-bak decided Thursday to replace his defense minister accused of mishandling North Korea's deadly artillery attack earlier this week.