CULTURE AND SPORT

A lone thief broke into a major Paris gallery and made off with a 120-million-dollar haul of modern masterpieces.

If NASA's exploration of Mars were summed up in a bumper sticker, it would read: "Follow the water."

The Vietnamese actresses were the first to ever represent the country by walking the red carpet at the 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival.

Thai police on Thursday escorted thousands of protesters out of a Buddhist temple where they had cowered overnight after nine people were killed there in gunbattles.

A bruised Bangkok awoke Thursday to scenes of burned out and looted buildings in the wake of a deadly army assault on anti-government protests in the Thai capital.

Vietnam Night at Cannes attracted 500 guests including filmmakers, producers, distributors, and representatives of world leading film festivals.

Atletico Madrid will play two friendly matches against the Vietnamese national team and a V-League team during their Asian tour in August.

The Thai army stormed a vast protest site in Bangkok Wednesday, leaving at least five people dead.

The suspect in a botched car bombing in Times Square appeared in court Tuesday on terrorism and weapons charges.

The United Nations urged Thailand to "step back from the brink" to avoid further loss of life.

An Afghan passenger plane carrying 44 people, including six foreigners, crashed Monday in a mountainous northern region.

The largest study to date of the safety of mobile phones has found no clear link to brain cancer, although it said further study is merited given their increasingly intensive use.

Two of Europe's busiest airports closed early Monday morning as a dense cloud of volcanic ash drifted from Iceland, aviation authorities said.

A renegade Thai general allied with "Red Shirt" anti-government protesters died in hospital on Monday.

The Vietnam International Film Festival programmers are looking to select five to seven French films for a special sidebar to the 60-film program.

Thailand's government insisted Sunday a crackdown on Red Shirt protesters will continue despite their plea for U.N-mediated talks.

Troops and anti-government protesters were locked in a tense standoff Sunday after two days of urban warfare in Bangkok left at least 24 dead.

Plumes of smoke could be seen over a tense Bangkok early Saturday as the death toll from the latest clashes between the Thai army and protesters hit 16.

Indonesian police said Friday they had foiled a plot by militants to kill President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and foreigners in an attack.