CULTURE AND SPORT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vowed to publish secret details of offshore accounts after a Swiss banking whistleblower handed over data Monday.

The prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has filed his indictment for the 2005 murder of former premier Rafiq Hariri as Beirut's neighbours backed new mediation to calm rising tensions.

Greenpeace praised China for setting new pollution targets but said the measures fell well short of what was needed to curb the country's world-beating carbon emissions.

Huge underground roads are to be built in the Chinese capital, state media said Monday, in the latest effort to relieve the chronic gridlock paralysing Beijing.

British actor Christian Bale and US actress Annette Bening were among early winners at the Golden Globes, which launch Hollywood's glittering annual awards season.

Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer is planning to handover to WikiLeaks two CDs containing data of around 2,000 bank clients who may have been evading taxes.

Europe is set for a space "revolution" in 2011 when two new types of rocket join its launch pad in French Guiana, European Space Agency boss Jean-Jacques Dordain said.

Australia's flood crisis shifted to the country's far south on Sunday, with 14,000 homes swamped by a record deluge.

The heads of BP and Russian oil firm Rosneft announced an "historic" deal to swap shares in a joint venture to exploit the vast untouched energy resources of the Arctic.

More than 10 dance sport duos will perform in the first-ever “Vietnam dance sport stars festival”, to be held at the Trinh Hoai Duc Gymnasium in Hanoi.

More than 100 Hindu devotees were killed after a road accident triggered a stampede among thousands of pilgrims returning from an Indian religious festival.

The 2011 Spring Press Festival will be held at the Youth Culture House in District 1, HCM City on January 20-21.

US computer chip giant Intel posted its best earnings ever in 2010 as businesses beefed up data centers to handle services increasingly shifting to the Internet "cloud."

European scientists have found a way to genetically modify chickens so that they don't transmit bird flu.

Hanoi plans spectacular firework displays in 29 locations on lunar New Year’s Eve on February 3 according to the People’s Committee of the capital.

More than 40 Chinese animal rights groups hit out at Canada for turning China into a "dumping ground" for its seal meat and oils.

About 100 domestic and foreign contestants are gathering for the annual 3rd round of Kiteboard Tour Asia (KTA) at Mui Ne in the southern province of Binh Thuan.

Mudslides and floods in Brazil have killed at least 270 people as heavy rains caused the floods over the last couple of days.

Lebanon's government collapsed on Wednesday after the powerful Shiite party Hezbollah and its allies resigned from the cabinet.