CULTURE AND SPORT

South Korea launched its largest-ever anti-submarine exercise near the disputed sea border with North Korea, despite Pyongyang's threats of retaliation.

Foreign contestants at the Vietnamese Traditional Martial Arts Festival 2010 impressed the audience with their performances.

Diego Maradona is in the frame to succeed himself, it emerged here on Wednesday in the latest twist in the saga involving the footballing icon.

The third International Circus Festival will take place in the capital city of from August 6-11

A disgruntled employee at a US beer and wine wholesaler gunned down eight co-workers, and then turned the gun on himself.

Ferrari have been summoned to appear before FIA to answer charges of using team orders to manufacture a German Grand Prix win for Fernando Alonso.

Pakistan risked a public health disaster with 3.2 million people hit by floods as anger grew among survivors complaining they have been abandoned by the government.

South Asia is lagging behind the Asia-Pacific region in poverty and hunger reduction, a UN official said

The spotlight in Charles Taylor's war crimes trial shifts to supermodel Naomi Campbell when she testifies about an uncut diamond he allegedly sent to her room.

The United States will end its combat mission in Iraq  as scheduled on August 31 despite a recent flare-up in violence, President Barack Obama said.

Survivors crammed into inadequate shelters expressed anger over inaction from the Pakistani government as the death toll from the floods topped 1,100.

A landmark international treaty to ban cluster munitions took effect on Sunday, requiring signatories to stop the use, production and transfer of the deadly weapons.

Chelsea Clinton wed her longtime boyfriend under extraordinary security at an elegant Hudson River estate late Saturday.

Rescue workers and troops in Pakistan struggled to reach thousands of people affected by the country's worst floods in living memory, as the death toll rose to 800.

Spending as much as $250,000 on a bachelors degree from world-renowned U.S. universities is a waste of money, a new book asserts.

The second phase of the Apple iPhone 4\'s global launch in Asian and European nations got off to a \"nightmare\" start.

Ignacio \"Nacho\" Coronel, a top leader of Mexico\'s Sinaloa drug gang, was killed in a military raid in the suburbs of the western city of Guadalajara.

The fifth Conference on ASEAN-China People-to-People Friendship Organisations (CACPPFO), opened in Singapore on July 29.

A nursing assistant admitted killing eight of her newborn babies and stashing their tiny remains in plastic bags in a village in northern France, officials said.