CULTURE AND SPORT

US President Barack Obama arrived in India Saturday on the first leg of a trade-focused Asia tour that will kick off with a sombre tribute to the victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The Germany-based famous music group Mouse on Mars will arrive in Vietnam for performances in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City on November 12 and 13.

Rescuers picked through the rubble of destroyed homes as officials prepared for a mass burial of people killed by the violent eruption of Indonesia's most active volcano.

The Vietnamese chess team has a good chance to win a medal at the 2010 Asian Games thanks to Le Quang Liem’s impressive performance.

Vietnam is part of a new global film movement that begins Saturday, screening films on one night simultaneously in 12 countries.

Emergency crews recovered the charred remains of the victims of Cuba's worst plane crash in two decades in which all 68 people on board were killed.

China's booming car sales have had a devastating effect on the environment, the national environmental watchdog has warned.

A suicide bomb destroyed a Pakistani mosque, killing 61 people during the main weekly prayers and trapping human remains under a collapsed roof and pulverised rubble.

A Cuban airliner crashed in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board, while a charter aircraft crashed in Pakistan's Karachi on Friday, killing all 21 people on board.

All 20 people on board a privately-owned aircraft were killed after it crashed in Pakistan, while a Cuban airliner crashed with 68 people aboard.

Norway topped the 2010 United Nations' Human Development Index, while Asia has made the biggest strides in recent decades.

The death toll from Indonesia's fiery volcano has nearly doubled to 79 after a blistering gas cloud ripped through a mountainside village.

Haitian leaders urged many displaced in tent cities to evacuate as a deadly storm bore down on the quake-hit Caribbean nation.

A Greek judge charged two men with terrorism as police announced that a 14th parcel bomb had been dealt with after delivery at the French embassy in Athens.

The Vienna Charity Ball will be held for the first time in Vietnam on November 12 and all donations will be sent to the Friendship Village in Hanoi.

Australia's Qantas Airways grounded its fleet of Airbus A380 superjumbos Thursday after an engine failure forced a dramatic emergency landing in Singapore.

Physicists in Scotland said they had devised a flexible material that manipulates light, marking a small step towards "invisibility" clothing beloved of science fiction writers.

Hospital officials say the death toll from Indonesia's most volatile volcano has climbed by two to 40.

A five-year agreement calls for the social network's virtual currency to be the exclusive payment method for EA games.