CULTURE AND SPORT

DTiNews shares photos from readers celebrating Tet all over the world.

A kiss is just a kiss, but at Rio's Carnival, collecting as many pecking partners as possible at one of the 650 massive street parties that hit high gear on Saturday is truly a competitive sport.

U.S. President Barack Obama has issued a message of greetings to those celebrating the Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb. 14.

Southwest Chamber Music's exchange program will introduce Asians to contemporary classical works.

Thousands of Haitians prayed, wept and danced among tent shelters in the capital's main square on Friday.

Doctors inserted two stents into a clogged coronary artery after he complained of chest pains.

A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week.

A famed body paint artist created a stunning image of a South China Tiger in aid of a project to save the animal.

If snow keeps 230,000 government employees home for the better part of a week, will anyone notice?

J.J. Abrams won't return as director, but he will produce with Cruise.

Toyota on Tuesday announced another global recall -- this time involving more than 400,000 Priuses and other hybrid cars with braking problems.

Authorities in Haiti say a man has been pulled alive from rubble in Port-au-Prince where he may have been trapped since the January 12 earthquake.

Laura Chinchilla has won a landslide victory to become the next president of Costa Rica.

Conrad Murray freed on $75,000 bail after pleading not guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

The New Orleans Saints have won Super Bowl XLIV. They beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 here at Sun Life Stadium in South Florida.

A wall of booby-trapped mines has been laid by the Taliban to protect their last strongholds in central Helmand as they prepare to hold off a major allied assault.

Life in Washington ground to a halt Friday as steady snow fell.

The winners for top 3 faces of the year in 2009: Miss Brazil Isabel Correia, Miss Ethiopia Melat Yante and Miss Venezuela Andreina Castro.

“Arts of Ancient Vietnam: From River Plain to Open Sea” — matchless in quality, straight from the source.