CULTURE AND SPORT

The reclusive writer who gave literary voice to the emotional and psychological anguish of teenagers throughout the world is gone.

Microsoft Corp. said its earnings in the most recent quarter jumped 60 percent, as a rebound in the personal computer industry drove sales of the company's latest Windows operating system.

Earthquake left an estimated 200,000 dead throughout the country.

Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has made a comeback to the list of the world’s top ten players.

A frightened, shivering dog was rescued after floating at least 75 miles (120 kilometers) on an ice floe down Poland's Vistula River and into the Baltic Sea, officials said Thursday. Now his saviors just have to figure out who really owns him.

PM Dung shared Vietnam’s successful lessons on sustaining growth and reshaping national competitiveness.

California and Florida are the biggest winners among 31 states sharing $8 billion in rail grants from the U.S. economic stimulus package.

A music show with a performance by the UK’s Melodramas rock band and two Vietnamese rock bands will take place in HCMC on February 4.

Audiences in Hanoi will have an opportunity to enjoy ‘The Little Sweep’- a short opera by British composer Benjamin Britten in February at the Hanoi Opera House

The air transport industry ended 2009 with the largest ever post-war decline, according to the International Air Transport Association.

French rescuers pulled a teenage girl, moments from death, from the rubble of a home on Wednesday, 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the company's much-anticipated iPad tablet computer Wednesday.

North Korea fired artillery and South Korea responded with warning shots along their disputed western sea border Wednesday.

John Travolta has landed his own jet in Haiti carrying relief supplies and a team including doctors and Scientology ministers.

A suicide car bomber killed at least 18 and injured dozens more in a strike against a police crime lab in central Baghdad.

International donors agreed on a 10-year rebuilding effort for earthquake-damaged Haiti, one that would create an even better capital city.

Polls have opened in Sri Lanka for the presidential election which comes after a bitter campaign.

He's no Wyclef Jean or George Clooney, but that hasn't stopped seven-year-old Charlie Simpson from raising more than £120,000 ($195,000) for the Haiti earthquake.

Some time last year, in all probability, the "billionth African" was born, a milestone that will only benefit the poorest continent if it can get its act together and unify its piecemeal markets.