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The United States marked its return to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today, nearly two decades after it withdrew, with a flag raising ceremony at the agency's headquarters in Paris attended by First Lady Laura Bush.

The United Nations top humanitarian envoy for Sudan said today he was confident there will be peace in the Sudan, with an agreement signed perhaps as soon as the end of the year.

The United Nations refugee agency opened its annual top level meeting today with a reaffirmation of its commitment to Iraq, where most international staff have been temporarily withdrawn, and a pledge to work closely with local authorities to help hundreds of thousands of displaced Iraqis eventually return home.

West African troops now in Liberia are set to don the blue helmets of United Nations peacekeepers on Wednesday, according to the UN mission in that country.

The terrorist bombing of United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, the resulting drastic reduction in international staff and tardy action by the United States-run Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) have dealt a major blow to the timetable for ending the Oil-for-Food programme that fed most Iraqis during Saddam Hussein's regime, the UN official in charge of the operation said today.

As the annual high-level debate of world leaders at the General Assembly entered its second week today, leaders stressed international cooperation in addressing global issues and urged the speedy revamping of the United Nations in order to effectively address those challenges.

Guyana and Venezuela are seeking to reinvigorate discussions under the aegis of Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a bid to resolve the nearly two-century-old border controversy between the two neighbours on the northern shoulder of South America, a United Nations spokesman said today.

The chief of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today lauded Canada's push to quickly enact legislation allowing makers of generic medicines to export cheaper versions of patented HIV/AIDS drugs to poor countries heavily impacted by the pandemic.

United Nations officials in Kabul today deplored the murder of two Afghan aid workers who died of gunshot wounds near Kandahar earlier this week.

Contradicting conventional wisdom, the largest-ever worldwide collaborative study of heart disease has found that women are slightly more likely to die from cardiovascular disease (CVD) than men and that heart attacks and strokes kill twice as many women as all cancers combined, the United Nations health agency said today.