• After a dazzling start to his career in Major League Soccer, Lionel Messi returns to international duty with Argentina this week as South America's long qualifying road to the 2026 World Cup kicks off on Thursday.

  • Torrential rain and winds caused by an extratropical cyclone have left at least 21 people dead in southern Brazil, officials said Tuesday, warning more flooding may be coming.

  • India's space agency is attempting to land a spacecraft on the moon's south pole, a mission that could advance India's space ambitions and expand knowledge of lunar water ice, potentially one of the moon's most valuable resources.

  • MUSICAL PRODIGY: Việt Nam’s leading violinist Bùi Công Duy will give performances at two concerts at the HCM City Opera House on August 25 and 26. Photo courtesy of HBSO Việt Nam’s leading violinist Bùi Công Duy and international soloists will dazzle HCM City’s audiences with two concerts at the Opera House on August 25 and 26. The programme aims to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO). Duy, deputy director of the Việt Nam National Academy of Music, will open the first night with Concerto Grosso No. 1 for Violin, Piano, Percussions & Strings by Nguyễn Mạnh Duy Linh, a graduate of the Magnitogorsk State Conservatory in Russia. The violinist will perform the concerto along with pianist Ju Sun Young from South Korean and vibraphonist Trương Ngọc Hồng Minh. The concert will also present Double Concerto in E Minor, op. 88 for violin, viola and orchestra written by German composer Max Bruch in 1911, and Double Conc...

  • The iconic Hòn Trống Mái (Kissing Rocks), emblematic of Hạ Long Bay in Quảng Ninh's northern province, faces threats due to geological processes and rising sea water levels, as highlighted by a study from the Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources.

  • The organizers of Miss Grand Vietnam 2023 on Monday unveiled five crowns adorned with over 1,500 crystals and gemstones, which will be awarded to the beauty pageant’s queen and four runners-up.

  • Using a powerful torch, Aliki Buhayer-Mach momentarily drenches a nearby mountain top in light, straining to see if wolves are lurking in the shadows. Swiss NGO OPPAL has enlisted hundreds of volunteers this summer to chase predatory wolves away from grazing livestock. Photo: AFP If the predator were to get past the electric wires stretched around this high-altitude pasture in the Swiss Alps, the 57-year-old biologist knows "it would be a massacre". She and her 60-year-old husband Francois Mach-Buhayer -- a leading Swiss cardiologist -- have settled in to spend the night watching over some 480 sheep grazing in the remote mountains near the Italian border. The pair of unlikely herders are among several hundred people volunteering this summer through OPPAL, a Swiss NGO seeking a novel way to protect wolves, by helping chase them away from grazing livestock. "Our goal is that by the end of the summer season, the livestock are still alive... and the wolves too," OPPAL ...

  • FIFA chief Gianni Infantino said on Friday the Women's World Cup had generated more than $570 million in revenue and enabled soccer's global governing body to break even, despite raising the prize purse tenfold compared to the 2015 edition.