At least 37 people were killed and many others were wounded when a storm with a massive tornado struck an area outside the U.S. city of Oklahoma on Monday afternoon, officials said.

 At least 17 people were injured Sunday when gunmen opened fire at a parade in New Orleans in the U. S. state of Louisiana, U.S. media reported.

 US police descended on an unremarkable home in a working class neighborhood of Cleveland after three women who had been missing for around a decade were rescued from kidnappers.

 General Motors is recalling nearly 43,000 hybrid vehicles in the United States and around 500 in Canada to fix a defect that could cause a fire in the trunk, the automaker said Monday.

 Three women who had been missing for years -- two of whom disappeared as teenagers -- were found alive in a house in Cleveland, police in the US state of Ohio said.

The number of Americans initially applying for unemployment aid fell sharply to a five-year low last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

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 The European Aviation Safety Agency said Tuesday it had approved Boeing's proposed battery design change for its 787 planes, after a problem with overheating grounded the jetliner in January.

VietNamNet Bridge - "Vietnam at Peace" is the set of documentary photos of Vietnam after the Vietnam War, the period of rebuilding the country.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s famous fashion designer - Duc Hung, will bring his ao dai to the U.S. to attend a painting exhibition and Vietnamese ao dai show in New York on April 24.

 A clinical trial involving 1,300 premature infants "failed to adequately inform parents of the reasonably foreseeable risks" of blindness, neurological damage and death, according to a federal department letter recently made available online.

 US President Barack Obama announced a $100 million project to map the intricate inner mysteries of the human brain, targeting cures for diseases like Alzheimer's.

 The United States has criticized "unnecessary" European Union rules against genetically modified US crop imports as it prepares to enter free-trade talks with the EU.

 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday approved Tecfidera capsules to treat adults with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS).

Mekong Delta rice exports up 18 percent; Trade with Bangladesh down; Real estate giant VinGroup hits record revenue; Province to revoke 8 mining licences; New opportunities for US investors

Convincing her American adoptive parents to return to Vietnam with her to find her birth mother, during the search process, Jolie Nhung Thi Hoang LaBarge always wore Vietnamese ao dai and occasionally babbled a few sentences in Vietnamese.

The 6th Vietnamese International Film Festival will be held in the U.S., with the participation of filmmakers from Australia, Cambodia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Poland, Singapore, Switzerland, Vietnam and the United States.

 The United States called for drunk diplomats to be barred from United Nations' budget negotiations.

 Amid rising concern over alleged cyber crime originating from China, the White House will unveil a new plan Wednesday to help US firms thwart the theft of billions of dollars in trade secrets.

The top priority for the nation is to bolster economic growth and create jobs for the middle class, warning that drastic government spending cuts will hurt U.S. economic recovery.