Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemns in “the strongest possible terms” today's deadly bombing attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, according to Mr. Ban’s spokesperson.

If current economic policies do not change quickly, the Eurozone may lose 4.5 million jobs over the next four years, the United Nations warned in a new report today, adding that this would increase the risk of social unrest and would further erode citizen’s confidence in their governments, the financial system and European institutions.

The United Nations war crimes tribunal set up in the wake of the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s today sentenced a leader of the Serb Radical Party – already facing trial on charges of crimes against humanity – to two years imprisonment for failure to remove confidential information from his website, in violation of the court’s orders.

The World Heritage Committee today placed an historic UK property on its list of endangered world heritage, and removed another two sites, in Pakistan and the Philippines, following improvement in their conservation.