Barcelona enjoyed a comfortable 2-0 win over Czech side Viktoria Plzen in their third game in the Champions League group stage.

Basque separatist group ETA on Thursday announced 'definitive end' to its armed struggle for the independence of the Basque region in the north of Spain and the southwest of France.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that Turkey had launched a cross-border military operation into five regions in northern Iraq in fight against the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK).

VietNamNet Bridge – Eight artists of Hanoi have brought the northern region’s autumn to HCM City through their diverse-styled artworks.

Flood of smuggling hits Mekong Delta; Vietnam banks need more capital: Fitch; Rice prices hit record high in 3 years; Saigon Railways offers huge discount on train tickets; Vietnam becomes EU’s eighth largest textile provider

Libya's fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds around Thursday noon after his capture in Sirte, after nearly two months on the run, as fighters of the ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) claimed control of Gaddafi's hometown.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met with the leaders from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member nations in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, who will attend the 8th China-ASEAN Expo

VietNamNet Bridge – Denmark will grant $135 million to Vietnam in the next two years to help developing clean energy.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Government plans to both encourage and compel companies that employ a large number of migrant workers to build low-cost houses for them, says Construction Minister Trinh Dinh Dung.

HCMC to host Toyota Classics Concert 2011; Italia holds talk on culture; Ho Chi Minh City to host first Piano Festival; Italy-Vietnam cultural week introduced   

South Korea entry visa is now free for Vietnamese tourists from Ho Chi Minh City flying direct to Korea’s Jeju Island, tourist officials announced Monday in the city.

Viet Kieu (overseas Vietnamese), who are mostly distributing Chinese, South Korean and Thai goods, will become the “messengers” of Vietnamese goods, if Vietnamese manufacturers cooperate with them to popularize Vietnamese goods in the world market.

Vietnamese people will have the chance to vote for Ha Long Bay as a new World Wonder through a TV programme to be broadcast live on October 29.

A Korean-origin doomsday cult claims to have won over adherents in Ho Chi Minh City who are now awaiting the end of the world and, with its assistance, will go to Heaven.

VietNamNet Bridge – Two and three-year vocational training programmes are faced with declining enrolment as more universities have opened schools in recent years.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Information and Communication and Microsoft Vietnam on October 19 agreed to establish an Information Technology (IT) development fund.

Vietnamese parents nowadays all want their children to become geniuses. Many of the children, who learn to become geniuses, have mental problems because they have to learn too hard.

 Denmark to give $135 million ODA for green growth; Gold robbery kingpin is wanted US drug gangster; Man who killed his wife has death sentence commuted to life

VietNamNet Bridge – Doctors have decided to not perform any surgery on the conjoined twins, born last Tuesday in Soc Trang Province, after the consultation on October 18.

The most critical issue today is the ineffective use of the state’s resources by the state owned enterprises (SOEs), which affects the quality of growth, development and competitiveness of the economy.

VietNamNet Bridge – Model Truong Tri Truc Diem was just licensed on October 19, before she left Vietnam to China to participate in Miss International 2011 this morning, October 20.

VietNamNet Bridge – Composer Nguyen Thien Dao has returned to Vietnam to arrange an opera ballet based on Great poet Nguyen Du’s “Tales of Kieu” in cooperation with the Vietnam Opera Ballet Theater.

VietNamNet Bridge – A cruel domestic violence case has been reported in the port city of Hai Phong. An 11-year-old boy has been tortured and even forced to eat human feces by his father.

Optimistic signs have flared for the Vietnamese economy in the second half of 2011but many difficulties are still unsolved, especially problems that have existed for many years and harmed comprehensive development of the economy.