CULTURE AND SPORT

World leaders trickled into Toronto for global economic talks, but their resolve seemed less focused than at earlier meetings.

Welsh-born lawyer Julia Gillard became Australia's first woman prime minister Thursday after Kevin Rudd fell to a party coup.

President Obama placed the sapping Afghan war in the hands of Iraq hero General David Petraeus, after firing US commander Stanley McChrystal.

On and on and on, and on some more, they played — longer than anyone ever had before. And still there was no winner.

England and the United States qualified for the last 16 of the World Cup, but the US won the group with a last-gasp 1-0 victory over Algeria.

A string of first round failures by African teams on their home turf threatened to muzzle the buzz of the vuvuzela.

Charges were dropped Tuesday against two Dutch women arrested at a World Cup match for wearing short orange dresses.

President Barack Obama was to meet at the White House Wednesday with his commander in the Afghanistan war.

South Korea progressed to the second round of the World Cup for only the second time in eight attempts after a 2-2 draw with Nigeria.

Rescuers have found the wreckage of a crashed plane carrying an Australian mining tycoon and other executives, with ten bodies found so far.

Buoc Nhay Hoan Vu 2010 (Dancing with the Stars) had its finale and the winner took the show by storm.

Some couples in Japan are choosing to celebrate the end of an unhappy marriage by saying "I do" for a final time at a divorce ceremony.

The event is open to the public and is an effort from Yard Dogs front-man Simon Redington to pump some pulse into Hanoi's music scene.

Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty to the Times Square car bomb bid "100 times", defiantly warning of more attacks on the U.S.

The AFC ‘C’ Certificate Coaching Course kicked off the 2010 AFC U-13 Girls Festial of Football in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday.

An explosion in a central China colliery on Monday killed 46 miners, state media reported.

Scientists say the marine mammals are not only smarter than thought but also share several attributes once claimed as exclusively human.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that he wanted to work with Russia to give developing nations a larger say in how to regulate the global economy.

US President Barack Obama urged the world's leading economies to avoid scaling back government spending too quickly or risk derailing the global recovery.