UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged late on Saturday quick implementation of a West African accord requiring a military junta in Mali to step down and hand over power to lawful authorities.

The ju

Titanic’s wreckage, which has remained at the bottom of the North Atlantic for 100 years, will now come under the protection of the United Nations’ cultural body that seeks to safeguard wrecks, decora

India and China will witness the largest growth in their urban populations in the next four decades, posing new challenges of providing jobs, housing, energy and infrastructure to their people, the Un

India and China will witness unprecedented increase in their urban populations in the next four decades posing new challenges of providing jobs, energy, housing and infrastructure to their people, a U

The UN will observe Earth Hour on Saturday by turning off the lights for one hour at its facilities around the world.

The world body, headquartered in New York, will join scores of other landmarks ar

India on Thursday said Iran should fully cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with a view to restoring confidence of the international community that its nuclear programme is p

Special envoy Kofi Annan warned of an ‘escalation’ of the Syria conflict into the rest of the Middle East unless it is carefully handled as he called on the UN Security Council to unite to put pressur

Kofi Annan, the joint special envoy of the UN and the Arab League on the Syrian crisis, said on Friday that he has urged the UN Security Council to exhibit unity in its attempt to put an end to Syrian

Kofi Annan, the UN-Arab League special envoy for Syria, is set to meet President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus to press for an immediate end to violence that has killed thousands of people in the countr

Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan has been appointed as the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy to Syria tasked with engaging with all relevant interlocutors within and outside the troubled co