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The United Nations Security Council will hold on Wednesday its first open debate on Iraq since hostilities broke out and will also seek to reach a consensus on providing humanitarian assistance to the country since the suspension of the UN Oil-for-Food Programme, which allows Baghdad to use part of its petroleum sales to buy relief supplies.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar cut short his fact finding mission there today after discovering a listening device under the table during interviews with prison inmates.

Expressing profound concern at the continuing armed conflict in Liberia and its toll on the civilian population, the United Nations human rights chief today urged all parties to the conflict to commit themselves immediately to the protection of civilians.

Pledging again that the United Nations will do whatever it can to aid the Iraqi people, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called for urgent measures to restore water and electricity to Basra following reports that the southern city may face a humanitarian disaster and urged the parties to the Iraqi conflict to treat prisoners of war humanely.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today said it has offered to help Greece and the United Kingdom to resolve their differences over the Parthenon Marbles kept at the British Museum.

Top United Nations officials marked World Tuberculosis Day today by hailing a “significant milestone” in treating 10 million patients under an international programme but also calling for increased efforts to reach the global goal of detecting 70 per cent of all infectious TB cases and curing 85 per cent of those detected by 2005.

United Nations staff members worldwide are set to honour their colleagues who have been detained, abducted or who have gone missing while in the service of the Organization.

Calling it a "cowardly act of terrorism," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today strongly condemned yesterday's massacre of 24 people in Kashmir, including women and children.

While the peace process in Bougainville is stronger than ever, it still needs nurturing, the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report issued today on progress made by the United Nations mission to the island in Papua New Guinea.

Marking the start of the Afghan school year, the senior United Nations envoy for the country has deplored the attacks against schools in parts of the country and called on Afghans to unite against vandalism.