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After hearing a report from its Counter-terrorism Committee (CTC) that the fight against the scourge had now gone global with the United Nations at its centre, the Security Council today called on UN Member States to urgently submit outstanding reports on their part in the battle.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Adviser on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, Jeffrey Sachs, today said the current unprecedented population explosion is one of the greatest challenges the world faces in achieving sustainable development.

The main United Nations agency providing assistance to Palestine refugees today protested the Israeli military’s occupation of a girls’ school in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank, calling it a flagrant violation of international law.

In the most comprehensive global examination of cancer to date, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today warned that annual rates could rise by 50 per cent to 15 million new cases in 2020, and it called for immediate public health action worldwide to slash tobacco consumption and promote a healthy diet – two major weapons in the fight against the disease.

A United Nations General Assembly committee has recommended the establishment of a working group to settle outstanding issues in two draft conventions on terrorism, including the definition of terrorism itself, and the possible holding of a high-level UN conference on an international organized response to all forms of the scourge.

After hearing an update on the humanitarian situation in Iraq by Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette today, the members of the Security Council expressed their concern regarding the Iraqi population's access to relief help.

Members of the United Nations Security Council today welcomed the announcement by President Pierre Buyoya of Burundi that he will hand over power to his deputy on 1 May, as agreed in a peace deal.

Seeking to find the source of a deadly new respiratory disease, United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) experts arrived in Guangdong Province, China, today and immediately started work at the site of the first and largest outbreak of the illness, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

In the wake of a devastating landslide in northern Bolivia, United Nations agencies and local rescue workers continue the struggle to recover bodies and reach victims stranded in a tiny gold-mining settlement.

Philippe de Seynes, who led the United Nations economic and social department for 20 years and was responsible for originating several UN organizations during his tenure, died yesterday in Paris at age 93.