UNITED NATIONS - Five women and three men are in the running to succeed Antonio Guterres as leader of the United Nations, which faces unprecedented global instability, wars and its own crushing budget crisis.
Observers say it is difficult to pick a favourite, given that the world's major powers are divided on the outcome, but Costa Rica's Rebeca Grynspan was the front-runner after the first informal straw poll to gauge each candidate's support.
