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The United Nations is reaching out to the population of its host city, New York, with an ad campaign meant to assuage worries over traffic jams and other disruptions that might arise from the 2005 World Summit being next week, which is expected to be the largest gathering of world leaders ever held.

The United Nations Security Council today voted to expand the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) temporarily to cover the preparations and holding of nationwide elections next year, the largest and most expensive ever assisted by the world body.

With barely a week left before the 2005 World Summit brings together the largest ever gathering of international leaders at United Nations Headquarters in New York, a General Assembly panel today continued its marathon sessions aimed at drafting an outcome document for the 14-16 September meeting.

Marking the release of new trade surveys and the opening of an international trade conference, the new director of the United Nations trade agency has urged action in a range of areas to help developing countries make permanent gains from rising commodity prices and the increase of international commerce.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced hope that the parties in Nepal will take measures leading to peace negotiations, and offered his support for the process.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today thanked donors meeting in London for their contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria while urging that more resources be devoted to the cause in the interests of human progress.

The United Nations has mobilized an urgent response to last week's Al Aemma bridge disaster, which killed or injured an estimated 2,000 people, rushing aid to the affected families and working to bolster the capacity of local hospitals to treat survivors.

The United Nations announced today that the United States Government has accepted the world body's offer of help in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Reacting to the Iraqi Government's decision to execute by hanging three men accused of kidnapping, killing and rape, the United Nations Assistance Mission for the country (UNAMI) today urged that future death penalty sentences be commuted.

The United Nations health agency is working closely with the Iraqi health ministry and other partners to avert more deaths among the wounded and help alleviate suffering and mental trauma after the stampede on a bridge in Baghdad two days ago which killed up to 1,000 people and injured hundreds more.