The United Nations demanded to know Friday why it took an hour for Afghan police and NATO troops to respond to a Taliban attack on a guest house filled with U.N. staff in Kabul. ...more

October 31, 2009

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned world leaders attending an interfaith conference Wednesday that globalization has increased communal strife, extremist ideologies and the polarization of societies. ...more

November 13, 2008

Cuba's Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match, prompting the World Taekwondo Federation to recommend he be banned for life. ...more

August 24, 2008

About 200 gunmen on horseback and in SUVs launched a brazen attack on international peacekeepers in Darfur, killing seven in the deadliest strike against the under-equipped and understaffed mission since it deployed, the United Nations said Wednesday. ...more

July 10, 2008

World customs authorities on Tuesday called on the United States to repeal or scale back a new law that will require foreign ports to screen all containers before they are shipped to the United States. ...more

June 11, 2008

Myanmar's ruling junta, faced with global outrage about its low-key response to last month's deadly cyclone, said Sunday that recovery from the catastrophe will be speedy and extolled the country's leaders for their actions in the crisis. ...more

June 2, 2008

The ruling junta said Friday that it will let foreign aid workers and commercial ships help survivors in Myanmar's cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta, but refused to relent on accepting aid from U.S., French and British military ships. ...more

May 24, 2008

Serbia's foreign minister on Thursday urged the U.N. Security Council to oppose Kosovo's expected declaration of independence and called on the secretary-general to order that any proclamation be declared null and void. ...more

February 15, 2008

The world will have to end its growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly free of carbon-emitting technologies in about four decades to avoid killing as many as a quarter of the planet's species from global warming, according to top United Nations scientists. ...more

November 18, 2007

Rebel forces stormed a small African Union base in northern Darfur and killed 10 peacekeepers in an unprecedented attack on the beleaguered mission that threatened key peace talks set for this month. ...more

October 1, 2007