The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

The UN-endorsed International Asteroid Warning Network has launched a coordinated campaign to refine tracking techniques for the rare visitor.

Letters: Bryony Worthington says the media should not be pushing a western attitude to climate strategies to the detriment of African nations. Plus letters from Prof Hugh Hunt, Dr Portia Adade Williams and Angela Churie Kallhauge

Western and Arab diplomats have toured Lebanon's border with Israel, where Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers are working to end Hezbollah's armed presence

One of the world’s foremost economists, Lant Pritchett, has a plan.

The United Nations on Monday called for the unconditional release of the estimated 10,000 people arbitrarily detained in Eritrea, including politicians, journalists and students.

Anita Tripura wakes up at 3.30 a.m., pulls out her teesing –  – a large bamboo basket with aluminium pots stacked up inside it – and marches downhill in darkness. The teesing is attached to a long cloth-band that hangs from her forehead. A flickering kerosene lamp that she holds…

The CEO of the European Climate Foundation, who served as France's climate change ambassador for the 2015 United Nations climate summit in Paris, remains a climate optimist and points to China as an example to follow.

The United Nations will appraise its policies on refugees during the Global Refugee Forum opening Monday in Geneva. This move is due to an increase in armed conflict, the politicisation of asylum law and cuts to international aid.

Australia suffered one of its deadliest massacres in its history on Sunday when two gunmen opened fire on a Jewish celebration

Israel’s military raids and strikes over the past year aiming to carve out a buffer zone in southern Syria have raised tensions, frustrated locals and also appear to have scuttled chances — despite U.S. pressure — of any imminent thaw in relations between the two neighbors

The Israeli military killed Raed Saad, commander of Hamas' military manufacturing unit, in a strike outside Gaza City on Saturday. He was the most senior militant killed since a ceasefire agreement came into effect in October.