CULTURE AND SPORT

More than 400 international environmental activists left Mexico City Wednesday in a convoy headed to a UN climate conference in Cancun.

AFF Cup defending champions Vietnam will attend this year tournament with lot of pressures as they are in a group with very strong teams.

Millions of people around the world will be glued to their iPad or other tablet computer instead of watching yet another re-run of a movie on TV.

Finland's national carrier Finnair cancelled more than 200 international and domestic flights Wednesday on the second day of a cabin crew strike, while both sides wait for the national labour mediator to reconvene negotiations.

The Vietnamese film “Bi, Dung So!” won Best First Feature at the 22nd Stockholm International Film Festival in Sweden, according to local media.

A troupe of Chinese disabled artists will perform in Hanoi on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Vietnam-China diplomatic ties.

Interpol on Wednesday issued a global arrest warrant for the shadowy founder of WikiLeaks.

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.