At least five people including a top sports official were killed and 10 others injured in a suicide bomb attack on a reopened theater in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and witnesses reported.

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner said Wednesday that despite a recovering economy, the U.S. should be wary of cutting budget too much, in particular in areas such as education and social security.

U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Tuesday swept primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and District of Columbia, further solidifying his frontrunner status, putting more pressure on main rival Rick Santorum to quit.

VietNamNet Bridge – This famous French-Canadian pop punk band from Montreal, Canada will join the free concert MTV Exit at Hanoi’s My Dinh Stadium on May 26.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Wednesday filed charges against JPMorgan Chase Bank for its unlawful handling of Lehman Brothers Inc' customer segregated funds.

Amazon is testing a service that allows tablet users to make purchases through mobile applications, trying to take on Apple and Google in the mobile business, U.S. media reported on Tuesday.

About a dozen of tornadoes battered the U.S. state of Texas on Tuesday, wounding more than 10 people and causing widespread damage estimated to many millions of U.S. dollars.

Le Thanh Hai, Deputy Director of the National Hydro Meteorological Forecasting Centre said that storms and tropical depressions are now occurring more frequently in Vietnam and have become quite unpredictable.

Farmers now dare not to sell tra fish to seafood processing companies. Commercial banks have tightened the lending, making it unable for enterprises to collect fish. The tra farming has never fallen into such a difficult situation.

The tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious public health threat in Afghanistan as 10,500 people lost their lives because of TB each year, Afghan Public Health Minister Suraya Dalil said on Tuesday.

U.S. Defense Department on Wednesday announced charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and four others also involved in the 2001 attacks.

VietNamNet Bridge – The “Die Untertanent” Choir from Germany will have a performance at the yard of the Goethe Institute at 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Hanoi, at 8pm of April 7.

French police arrested more suspected Islamists as part of its crackdown on fundamentalism after an al-Qaeda-inspired shooter Mohamed Merah killed seven people including three children last month, local media reported.

A new report released on Tuesday find that the link between college education and longevity in the U.S. has grown stronger over time.

An incendiary device made of gas canisters that was planted in former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis' office in central Athens exploded on Tuesday evening, local TV channel reported.

VietNamNet Bridge – A Vietnamese university has combined with a private firm to manufacture a dancing robot, named Roohex.

VietNamNet Bridge – At the ancient pottery village of Phu Lang, in the northern province of Bac Ninh, children go to school for half of day and work with turning tables for the remaining time.

VietNamNet Bridge – Aviation experts have said that the home-made “helicopter” of  Mr. Nguyen Bui Hien, 58, in the southern province of Binh Duong, lacks a lot of technical parts--so it can only be named “means of fly.”

The Ministry of Transport, which has been under fire over a scheme to slap three new vehicle fees, has backed down from part of the plan.

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Haiphong municipal government has come to a final decision on the land use case involving the forcible removal of a farmer from his land in Tien Lang District.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a project to inspect, assess and map landslide prone mountainous areas in 37 provinces of Vietnam, to be conducted from this year until 2020.  

Hong Van Commune in Thuong Tin district of Hanoi was one time called the “billionaires’ village,” where ornamental plants could be sold at several billions of dong, helping local residents turn into billionaires.

VietNamNet Bridge – Some 130 children have been hospitalised in the last three months due to suffering from serious lead contamination caused by disqualified traditional medicine.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two children drowned in Binh Phuoc Province, a person was electrocuted to death, and 5 others were injured in Binh Duong during the storm that hit Southern Vietnam Sunday.