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Rain and poor road conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have postponed the planned movement of United Nations troops out of their base in Bunia into four other areas of Ituri province.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan strongly condemned the attack on a United States diplomatic convoy in Gaza today, killing three Americans, and he urged the Palestinian Authority to bring the guilty to justice speedily.

Financial transactions of Al-Qaida and the Taliban have become more "sophisticated" to avoid detection, sometimes involving the use of a centuries-old system, according to the head of the United Nations Security Council's committee overseeing sanctions against the two groups.

A United Nations advocate for children's rights will visit Brazil next month, at the invitation of the Government, to assess whether youngsters are being sold and sexually exploited.

The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the latest murder of a journalist in the Volga region of central Russia as an attack on democracy and freedom of the press.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today congratulated China on its first manned space mission, calling it a "step forward for all humankind."

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said a symposium on international law meeting today in Beijing would help spread understanding of the work of the much-misunderstood International Criminal Court (ICC), the first permanent tribunal to try war crimes.

Several United Nations humanitarian agencies and their non-governmental partners have begun to scale up their programmes to resettle internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Liberia, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called international efforts to make iodized salt available worldwide one of the successes of globalization, but warned that with 30 per cent of the world still without access to it, "The job is not done."

Seventeen years after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station the situation in the area remains "difficult' - as does the coordination of international relief efforts, according to a United Nations report issued today.