(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese doctors have successfully performed the first kidney transplant from a brain-dead donor.

(VOVWORLD) - British security minister Ben Wallace on Sunday warned that terrorist group Al-Qaeda was in a resurgent mode and may be plotting major terrorist attacks on airports and airliners in Europe.

(VOVWORLD) -Oil ministers from the leading OPEC nations said Sunday they expect prices will arrest their recent slide and rebalance early next year, when a deal on new production cuts takes effect.

(VOVWORLD) - SpaceX on Sunday successfully launched a rocket carrying a US military navigation satellite, the company's first national security space mission for the US.

(VOVWORLD) - 300 people registered on Sunday to donate their organs for scientific research at an event organized by the National Coordinating Centre for Human Organ Transplantation, the Buddhism Today Foundation, and Giac Ngo pagoda in Ho Chi Minh city.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese leaders have conveyed their condolences to Indonesia over the massive loss of life and property caused by a deadly tsunami that devastated Indonesia’s Banten and Lampung provinces on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - Chairman of Russia’s State Duma Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin on Sunday began a two-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

(VOVWORLD) - National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has praised young entrepreneurs and their start-ups in national development.

(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi President Barham Salih has expressed hope in a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the withdrawal of US troops from Syria will contribute to the conflict settlement and will not result in a new escalation of violence, Salih’s press service said.

(VOVWORLD) - Cuba's National Assembly on Saturday approved an update of the country's constitution, the final step before a national referendum expected to approve the new charter in February.