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Thanks to the effective coordination among national and international health officials, the United Nations today declared the contagious and deadly Ebola virus outbreak in southern Sudan over.

In a marriage of hard science and common wisdom, the United Nations health agency is holding a symposium aimed at encouraging people in the Asia and Pacific region to eat more fruits and vegetables.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced hope that countries meeting next year to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) will take action to eliminate nuclear arsenals in their entirety, six decades after atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

J. Asoka de Silva of Sri Lanka has become a permanent judge of the United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda, replacing his compatriot, Judge Asoka Gunawardena, who resigned in June.

In the face of increasing attacks on aid workers worldwide, the top United Nations humanitarian official is calling for a clear line between impartial relief personnel and those operating with a political or military agenda.

Piano virtuoso Lang Lang, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), is visiting Tanzania, where he praised the Government's efforts to fight malaria - a killer of more than 1 million people each year, most of them under five years old and living in sub-Saharan Africa.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warmly welcomed a $40 million Japanese donation to help millions of needy people in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the second piece of good news this week for a population hit by a decade of floods, droughts and economic hardship.

United Nations officials in Afghanistan today denounced the killing Wednesday of two German aid agency workers in an ambush in the country’s southeast.

The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the assassination of a radio broadcaster in the Philippines, the third journalist killed in the Southeast Asian nation this year, calling it “a crime against society as a whole.”

In an effort to highlight major global hunger emergencies in real-time, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today unveiled a colour-coded Internet map guiding visitors to the agency’s worldwide fight against the scourge.