Education can help fight poverty and educating girls, in particular, can contribute to sustainable development, according to the former Prime Minister of Australia.

There has been a “dramatic deterioration” of the situation in Iraq, the United Nations human rights office warned on Friday.

Thousands of people desperate for peace and a better life elsewhere continue to risk their lives by crossing the Bay of Bengal, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

A trace signal from the Malaysia Airlines flight 370 which disappeared in March may have been found by the UN’s Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO).