CULTURE AND SPORT

Britain and China signed trade deals worth 2.6 billion pounds Monday and announced Beijing will loan a pair of giant pandas to Edinburgh Zoo for 10 years.

NASA has spotted a tiny, rocky planet about the size of Earth doing a speedy orbit of a star outside our solar system.

Seventeen singers from ASEAN member countries are participating in the ASEAN Golden Voice Contest 2011 in Ho Chi Minh City from January 5 to 8.

South Korea confirmed three new cases of bird flu as the outbreak that began further hits farmers who are battling the nation's worst-ever outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

China's famed Shaolin Temple has set up over 40 companies overseas as it hopes to spread Buddhist-inspired martial arts around the globe, state press reported.

Slick touchscreen tablet computers and smarter devices for the home and the car took center stage as the Consumer Electronics Show wrapped up on Sunday.

More than 100 domestic and foreign professors, researchers and scholars gathered at an international seminar on “don ca tai tu” in Ho Chi Minh City from January 9-11.

A Boeing 727 airliner with state-run Iran Air crashed near a northwestern city in bad weather and broke into pieces, killing at least 72 of the 105 people on board.

Global warming may wipe out three-quarters of Europe's alpine glaciers and hike sea levels by four metres.

The "shady individual" showed up at a public gathering for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords asking to see the lawmaker, according to event volunteer Alex Villec. Told he would have to wait his turn, the man left but returned minutes later and gunfire erupted.

“Book Road”, a festival of books to be held in Ho Chi Minh City this Lunar New Year, will be the first of its kind in Vietnam.

UN relief agencies defended their role in the much criticised aid effort after Haiti's devastating earthquake nearly a year ago, saying they had faced "apocalyptic" scenes.

Hundreds of journalists and sports aficionados cast their votes for the athletes and coaches of the year in Hanoi, Da Nang and HCM City on Jan. 6.

A groundbreaking exhibition in Berlin tackling the personality cult of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler has been extended because of large numbers of visitors.

Germany shut down more than 4,700 farms and related businesses after tests showed animal feed had been contaminated by a cancer-causing chemical.

Extra police officers were being deployed at transport hubs in London on Friday as the British capital was put on alert amid fears of a terrorist attack, reports said.

The Central Highland province of Dak Lak will host the third Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival in Buon Ma Thuot City from March 10 - 13 this year.

Smarter devices, homes and cars for the always connected lifestyle are taking center stage as the annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off.

China appears to have completed a prototype of its first known stealth fighter, reports said Wednesday, highlighting Beijing's military modernisation days ahead of a visit by the US defence secretary.