Việt Nam News

Public health experts called on Friday for far-reaching measures against prison "incubators" of HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis.

Microsoft has scored a big victory on a keenly watched privacy battlefront, with a US appeals court exonerating the company for refusing to give police user data stored overseas.

Sympathy and condemnation for the Nice attack dominated the opening of an Asia Europe summit in Mongolia on Friday, drawing attention away from Beijing's rejection of a tribunal ruling dismissing its extensive South China Sea claims.

A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French Riviera resort of Nice, killing at least 77 and leaving scores injured in an attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display, authorities said Friday.

NATO and Russia failed to overcome deep differences over Ukraine Wednesday in their first talks since the alliance approved a troop boost in Eastern Europe, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg said.

Being overweight shaves about a year off one's life expectancy, a price which soars to about 10 years for the severely obese, a large-scale study reported on Thursday.

 At least five foreign suspects could be involved in operations that saw over NT$80 million (US$2.49 million) stolen from First Commercial Bank automatic teller machines, investigators said Wednesday.

Theresa May took over as Britain’s new prime minister on Wednesday charged with pulling the country out of the EU, and sprung a surprise by making top Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson foreign secretary.

Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has called on parties concerned in disputes in the South China Sea (called East Sea in Việt Nam) to abide by international law and avoid taking actions that could fuel tensions. 

After months of bitter campaigning, Bernie Sanders finally endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, pledging to work tirelessly to help his former rival defeat Donald Trump and win the White House.

At least 22 people were killed on Tuesday and dozens injured in a head-on collision between two passenger trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia, in one of the country's worst rail accidents in recent years.

New Zealand announced on Wednesday it was tightening rules surrounding foreign trusts after numerous documents in the Panama Papers leak referenced the South Pacific nation.

NATO and Russia on Wednesday hold their first talks since the alliance agreed at a summit in Warsaw to beef up its presence in eastern Europe.

An international tribunal today ruled against China in a bitter row over territorial claims to the South China Sea that is likely to ratchet up regional tensions.

Pentagon chief Ashton Carter has said that Washington will deploy 560 additional troops to aid Iraq's fight to retake Mosul from jihadists, deepening US military involvement in the country.

A shooting on Monday at a county courthouse in the US state of Michigan has left three people dead including the attacker and several others injured, local media reported, citing the county sheriff.

Theresa May on Wednesday will become the prime minister who leads Britain into talks to quit the European Union, after her last rival in the bid to succeed David Cameron pulled out.

Eurozone finance ministers have assessed the impact of the British decision to leave the EU, warning that the country risked becoming "Little Britain" in the aftermath.