CULTURE AND SPORT

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.

Kyrgyzstan's interim president said Friday that the death toll from the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country's south could be near 2,000.

The Pakistani-American arrested over last month's botched car bombing in New York's Times Square has been formally charged.

BP boss Tony Hayward on Wednesday faced his first public grilling by US lawmakers who lashed him over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

World Cup organisers faced protests as the Netherlands condemned "absurd" arrests over a marketing stunt and thousands of South Africans protested the tournament bill.

Vietnamese chess masters won 112 medals, ranking first at the Southeast Asian chess tournament 2010.

Catching bin Laden was Gary Brooks Faulkner's "passion," his brother said.

Five-time World Cup winners Brazil opened their South Africa 2010 campaign with a workmanlike 2-1 win over Asian minnows North Korea on Tuesday.

TV viewers can take out their earplugs because the vuvuzelas are going to have a bit less buzz.

Police have arrested 178 people in Europe and the United States suspected of cloning credit cards in an international scam worth over 20 million euros.

Defending champions Italy made an unconvincing start to the World Cup with a drab 1-1 draw against Paraguay after Holland overcame a resilient Denmark.

Tens of thousands of Uzbek refugees have fled raging violence in Kyrgyzstan that left 113 dead.

Africa tasted victory for the first time at the World Cup but fresh tragedy punctured the euphoria.