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The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog announced today that he is sending a team to visit Syria this month after expressing regret that his agency had not received information sooner alleging that a Syrian installation destroyed by Israel last year was a nuclear reactor.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for renewed efforts to help Haiti deal with the impact of the recent surge in the prices of many basic foods, a day before he attends a high-level summit in Rome on efforts around the world to tackle the food crisis.

The Security Council today extended through the rest of this year the mandate of the independent probe into the February 2005 assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri and a series of other recent killings in Lebanon.

The Security Council today deplored acts of piracy and armed robbery off the coast of Somalia which impede the delivery of vital relief supplies, calling on States to cooperate more to tackle the problem.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Liberia (UNMIL) today voiced its sadness at yesterday’s tragedy in which nine soccer fans died in a stadium crush during a World Cup qualifying match between Liberia and the Gambia.

A new United Nations-backed initiative has been launched to create employment opportunities for young people in the Middle East, where nearly three-quarters of youth are unemployed in some of the region’s countries.

Over 250,000 people in 70 countries took to the streets yesterday in a global walk organized by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and its largest corporate partners, TNT and Unilever, which raised more than $500,000 to feed hungry schoolchildren.

An independent review of allegations that United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) resources in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) were diverted to illicit purposes by the Government has found no evidence they were consistently misused or that agency officials knew of such practices.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his outrage at today’s deadly car bombing outside the Danish Embassy in the Pakistani capital.

The head of the United Nations food agency today called for greater support for its growing relief operations in Myanmar in the wake of last month's devastating cyclone after wrapping up a two-day visit to the country's hardest-hit areas.