(VOVWORLD) - Around 1,600 athletes from 57 countries are expected to compete in the 2019 IRONMAN Asia Pacific Championship in Da Nang next May.

(VOVWORLD) - US Senator John McCain, died on Saturday (local time), his office said. He was 81.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has bagged a silver for swimming and a bronze for rowing at the Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 in Indonesia.

(VOVWORLD) - Representatives from 65 Japanese and Hanoi firms joined a program to promote tourism in the capital Vietnamese city on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - President Tran Dai Quang on Saturday wrapped up a 3-day state visit to Ethiopia and began a 4-day state visit to Egypt. This is the first visit by a Vietnamese head of state to Egypt since the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1963.

(VOVWORLD) -The US Navy re-launched its Cold War-era Second Fleet on Friday, a move that comes amid renewed tensions with Russia.

(VOVWORLD) -President Trump on Friday called off a planned trip to North Korea by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, just days before the top diplomat was to arrive in the country for the next round of high-stakes nuclear talks.

(VOVWORLD) -For the first time ever, NASA scientists have confirmed the presence of water ice on the moon, near both its north and south poles.

(VOVWORLD) -A key Taliban commander Mullah Hemmatullah has been killed as government forces launched air strikes against the militant group's hideout in Nawbahar district of the southern Zabul.

(VOVWORLD) -At least 180 Palestinians have been injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers in eastern Gaza Strip.