CULTURE AND SPORT

British pop group Wham!'s 1984 hit single "Last Christmas" was voted most annoying Christmas song in a poll in Bulgaria.

Trade costs have remained the largest barrier for least developed countries and the World Bank gathered in Geneva to discuss strategies to address this.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appear in a British court in a second attempt to win bail after he was arrested over allegations of sex crimes in Sweden.

The best meteor shower of the year, a display of shooting stars known as the Geminids, is set to peak early Tuesday.

Vietnam will have to play Malaysia in the first leg of the ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki Cup semi-finals in Kuala Lumpur without several of the team's best players.

Rescuers on Tuesday called off the search for 17 crew members missing from a South Korean trawler that sank off Antarctica, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to 22.

British police searched a house in southeast England which is thought to be the home of an alleged suicide bomber who blew himself up in Stockholm at the weekend.

Twenty-two fishermen were presumed dead after their South Korean trawler sank suddenly off Antarctica on Monday.

Thirty contemporary oil paintings by French-Vietnamese artist Robert Mihagui are on display at an exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City.

Yearning for a gadget that was bigger than a smartphone but smaller than a laptop made tablet computing a defining trend for 2010.

A storm dumped mounds of snow across the US' upper Midwest, closing major highways and canceling more than 1,600 flights.

Twin blasts in central Stockholm killed one person and injured two others.

The eldest son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment.

A U.N. conference adopted a modest climate deal creating a fund to help the developing world go green.

Rumors of a new and improved Apple iPad continue to swirl, the latest of which come from Reuters.

China will be connected by rail with its neighbours in South East Asia, including Singapore, Thailand and Laos, in the next three years.

Vietnam is to host the “home” game of the Philippines against Indonesia in Ho Chi Minh City on December 16.

Life expectancy has dropped slightly for all Americans except for black men, who gained around two and a half months in longevity, a report released Thursday found.

The joint Vietnam-China film, Passing Shanghai Wharf, which charts the revolutionary life of President Ho Chi Minh will premier in cinemas throughout Vietnam next Friday.