CULTURE AND SPORT

Princess Clotilde Courau is to celebrate sexual freedom on the stage of Paris' palace of striptease, the Crazy Horse.

Ontiveros recently beat out baristas worldwide to take first place at the 2010 The Coffee Bean World Barista Competition, which was held in Vietnam.

Gadget-mad South Korea now has more mobile phones than people, telecoms authorities said Wednesday.

Rampant substandard moon cakes available in market have raise public concerns.

The number of global hungry has declined by nearly 10 percent, the first drop in the number of undernourished since 1995.

A group of high school students in HCM City have produced a film which has become an Internet hit.

An exhibition named “Tools of Learning, Past and Present,” is on at the Temple of Literature until the end of this month.

The most powerful Atlantic storm of 2010 whipped up dangerous swells in the Caribbean as it barreled west-northwest in the direction of Bermuda.

Young Hanoians had a thrilling day with the Japanese cosplayer duo YuRiE at the Acctive Expo 2010.

A cartoon on a legendary Emperor, who founded Thang Long capital, now Hanoi, is scheduled to air on September 17.

In the upcoming 1,000th Thang Long-Hanoi Cup, the Vietnamese team will compete with four foreign football teams.

Indian police battled stone-throwing rioters who went on the rampage in Kashmir, leaving 14 people dead.

Fifteen people died in a plane crash in Venezuela, but 36 others miraculously survived after the pilot alerted air traffic control.

The bitter memory of last year's Champions League is driving Sir Alex Ferguson as Manchester United launch their latest quest for European silverware against Rangers.

Well-known guitarist Pierre Laniau will be performing for two nights in Hanoi during late September.

Europe's economy will grow by a substantially faster than expected 1.7 percent across the core eurozone this year, according to new European Union forecasts.

Authorities have arrested one of Mexico's most wanted men, alleged drug trafficker Sergio Villarreal, who is said to work for the Beltran Leyva cartel.

Vietnam will be the top seed at the ASEAN Football Championship, or AFF-Suzuki Cup, which it is to co-host with Indonesia from December 1-29.

The mountains of used plastic bottles at a recycling station in Taipei will be turned into wigs and clothes that people will wear.