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Renowned Italian composer and conductor Ennio Morricone performed a concert this evening at the United Nations entitled “Message for Peace” in support of the Organization’s global work.

Painting a generally grim picture of the two years since the signing of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which ended 21 years of civil war between the north and the south, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says resolving the conflict in Darfur could go a long way towards restoring trust in the deal.

The United Nations envoy on children and armed conflict and the deputy head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have urged all parties in Sudan to commit to ending child recruitment and to immediately release any children associated with their forces.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is launching a programme to promote urban farming across the developing world as projections show that the number of city dwellers in those countries will continue to surge dramatically.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today visited the United Nations war crimes court for the Balkans wars in The Hague, Netherlands, and called for action by Security Council members to help bring the two principal Bosnian Serb fugitives, Radovan Karadžic and Ratko Mladic, to trial.

A trial of a new treatment to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission in women has been stopped prematurely because of a higher number of infections among those taking the microbicide cellulose sulfate compared with the placebo group, according to United Nations agencies involved.

The United Nations health agency is helping the government of Nigeria monitor the situation following two suspected fatal bird flu cases in Africa’s most populous country, only the second possible incidence of the H5N1 virus in humans in the sub-Saharan region.

The United Nations atomic watchdog agency, whose tasks include pre-empting nuclear and radiological terrorism and preventing proliferation, today reported 149 confirmed incidents of illicit trafficking and other unauthorized activities involving nuclear and radioactive materials in 2006.

Former United States Vice President Al Gore and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its President Jacques Rogge are among seven Champions of the Earth announced today by the United Nations ecological agency for their efforts to save the world’s environment.

Under an ambitious pilot programme in the northern Somalian port city of Bosaso, United Nations agencies, a non-governmental organization (NGO) and local communities have joined forces to relocate 120 internally displaced families who have fled intense fighting as well as 30 local poor families.