A 16 kilo (35.5 pounds) consignment of cocaine that Mexican drug traffickers recently lost has turned up in an unlikely place - the United Nations in New York.

Police and UN officials on Thursday des

The UN has launched a new online database to showcase successful strategies that businesses and communities are using to adapt to climate change while simultaneously increasing their profits and using

India, Brazil, Germany and Japan have made a joint bid for the expansion of the UN Security Council in both the permanent and non-permanent categories of membership.

Collectively known as G-4, the fo

UN envoys on Wednesday raised growing fears over 'revolutionary brigades' in Libya accused of causing a surge in post-Gaddafi unrest and holding thousands of people in secret detention centers.

But U

Veteran Indian diplomat Vijay Nambiar has been appointed UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's special adviser on Myanmar, the UN chief announced on Thursday.

Nambiar is currently Ban's Chief of Staff,

In a strongly worded statement, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to immediately stop violence against his own people.

"I say again to President

An estimated 400 people, an average of 40 a day, have been killed in Syria in the days following the arrival of the Arab League monitors in the country, a top UN official has said.

UN Under Secretar

Iraq will have a new opportunity to prove that it can put past troubles behind it with the full withdrawal of US forces from the country, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said.

"The completion of

The UN Security Council and United States on Friday lifted sanctions on Libya's central bank in a bid to ease a cash crunch in a post-Gaddafi era, diplomats said.

The UN council ended a freeze on the

More than 5,000 people are now believed to have been killed in the Syrian government's crackdown on protests, UN rights chief Navi Pillay told the UN Security Council on Monday.

Pillay also said ther