CULTURE AND SPORT

Investigators sifted through the rubble of a crashed plane Sunday looking for the black boxes after India's air crash killed 158.

An Air India passenger plane crashed as it came into land in the southern city of Mangalore on Saturday, killing most of the 166 people on board.

Thailand's premier said Friday that order has been restored, but that the divided kingdom faces "huge challenges".

South Korea's president convened an emergency national security meeting Friday, while North Korea once again spoke of war.

US spy czar Dennis Blair said he would quit, paying the price for a string of intelligence failures after a 16-month tenure.

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.