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The global response to the crisis of youngsters orphaned by AIDS is grossly inadequate and without a greater sense of urgency and collective action, millions more will put themselves at enormous risk in their struggle to stay alive, the head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today.

The top United Nations envoy in Kosovo today visited Mitrovica, the northern city which yesterday he placed under a single municipal administration, establishing UN offices in the previous parallel structures.

Wrapping up his official visit to France today, Secretary-General Kofi Annan met with the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for talks on a range of issues, including the decision by the United States to rejoin the Paris-based body after an 18-year absence.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today hailed the decision by a key expert panel to adopt a position paper on the right to water.

United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq have begun preparations for the resumption Wednesday of an international arms probe in the country that was suspended nearly four years ago, a UN spokesman reported today.

A British aid worker who died on Friday in the West Bank had been shot in the back by Israeli soldiers, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said today.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today announced the launch of a multi-million dollar project to help nomads and communities in three African countries boost the prospects for native flowers, shrubs and trees.

As part of its semi-annual review of the sanctions imposed on Liberia, the members of the Security Council will be drafting a statement to elaborate a comprehensive strategy for dealing with the situation in that country, the President of the 15-nation body said today.

Members of the United Nations Security Council today voiced support for the deployment of a regional force to the Central African Republic (CAR), and urged the country, along with Chad, to exercise restraint.

As AIDS has killed millions of young men and women in Africa, it is now making it "intolerably difficult" for some countries in the southern part of the continent to resist famine, weakening coping mechanisms that enable populations to fight back, Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette said today as the United Nations marked World AIDS Day, which is officially observed on 1 December.