Several hundred people participated in a bike rally on Sunday to mark the end of Hanoi's annual gay pride week and to advocate for LGBT rights in Vietnam.

The "Golden Bridge" in the Ba Na Hills has attracted many tourists since it opened in June and sits a 1,000 metres above sea level

There's almost more plastic than sand on this long, tree-lined beach: Plastic helmets, furniture and the plastic leg of a shop mannequin all stand out of an ocean of blue plastic bags.

Hundreds of men, women and children were killed in the worst recorded US war crime committed in the Vietnam war

The USS Carl Vinson could be seen on Monday morning from the cliff tops just outside the central Vietnamese city of Danang, where the 103,000-tonne carrier and two other US ships begin a five-day visit.

The USS Carl Vinson's arrival in Vietnam is deeply symbolic of growing ties between the former foes

Vietnam braces for deadly storm after it caused the death of 230 people in The Philippines

A Vietnamese researcher demonstrates how to hack Apple's face-recognition software with a mask and it's not a piece of cake

He says he believes US intelligence agencies on the issue but still wants to get on with Russia

The US and Russian leaders also discussed Syria and North Korea at their first meeting in four months.

Trump used the summit to reiterate his vision of 'America First'

Will presidents Trump and Putin meet? That was one of the big questions as world leaders gathered for the APEC summit in Vietnam. The White House

The pair previously met at a G20 summit in Hamburg in July

Vietnam's Hoi An floods following powerful typhoon

Dozens have been killed and thousands of homes have been flattened as the storm rages in the country's central and southern regions.

30,000 people have been evacuated as a powerful typhoon destroys buildings and cuts power.

Typhoon Damrey is reported to have killed at least five people in central and southern Vietnam

The bad weather caused by a tropical depression is wreaking havoc mostly in the north and centre of the country.

The typhoon, one of the strongest in recent years, has killed at least six people and cut off electricity for 1.3 million, the country's disaster agency said.

Hundreds of homes have been washed away in flooding and landslides in the north of the country