Actor Brad Pitt cleared of child abuse allegations -source
LOS ANGELES – Film star Brad Pitt has been cleared of abuse allegations in a child welfare investigation and has asked a court to grant him shared custody of his…
Transgender advocates fear reversal of civil rights under Trump
NEW YORK – Transgender advocates have vowed to resist any effort to reverse or slow down an expansion of transgender rights made under President Barack Obama, fearing a rollback of his…
How the Vietnamese-Americans voted in the US elections
Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States, in a win that has shocked the world. World leaders have congratulated Mr Trump with Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull…
Trump heads for White House after stunning win over Clinton
Republican Donald Trump stunned the world by defeating heavily favored rival Hillary Clinton in Wednesday’s (AEST) presidential election, ending eight years of Democratic rule and sending the United States on a…
Kabul welcomes back National Geographic’s green-eyed “Afghan Girl”
Afghan’s president on Wednesday welcomed back Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed “Afghan Girl” whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her country’s wars, offering her a furnished apartment…
China jails 49 over Tianjin blast that killed 165
BEIJING, Nov 9 (Reuters) – A Chinese court has jailed 25 government officials and 24 company managers over a series of explosions in the port city of Tianjin that killed…
British diver rescued after 17 hours in shark-infested Australian waters
A 68-year-old British scuba diver expressed relief over his rescue after 17 hours lost at sea in shark-infested waters off Australia’s northeast coast, when a solo dive trip went wrong.…
Vietnam produces country’s first measles-rubella vaccine
Vietnam has successfully produced a combined vaccine against measles and rubella for the first time, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health said on Tuesday. The vaccine, which was made by the Ministry’s Centre…
Republicans projected to keep control of US Congress
WASHINGTON – Both chambers of the US Congress are projected to remain under Republican control when they convene on January 3, with voters dashing Democrats’ hopes of taking over the…
200 Vietnamese drug addicts stage second breakout in one week- state media
Around 200 inmates have broken down the walls and escaped from a drug rehabilitation centre in Vietnam’s southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on Wednesday morning, according to local media.…
