The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

A ‘day of disruption’ in Israel and regional leaders in a frenzy of deals and talks – here’s the Middle East this week.

French authorities managed to bring a week of nighttime urban violence and looting in its low-income, multi-racial surburbs to a rapid end – but unless the underlying reasons for the rioting are addressed, researchers say we can expect a rerun.

What will happen now that Russia has pulled out of deal that allowed Ukrainian grain to reach world markets?

BRITISH diplomats have been enraged after the European Union appeared to endorse the Argentine name for the Falkland Islands.

A toddler, passed out from heat exhaustion and caught on a coil of barbed wire, pushed back without assistance by armed men. Desperate people denied water on orders from above, and left to die as a deterrent to others. These aren’t scenes from some UN observer report on a warzone,…

Michael Gove ‘decided to refuse permission,’ in a win for campaigners concerned about the carbon footprint of redevelopment

India is indeed likely to be a rising “great power” and its economy will have the size similar to that of the U.S. by 2050, according to noted economics commentator Martin Wolf who has also highlighted that Western leaders are making a sensible bet on the country.

One of the world's largest refugee camps offers a stark example of the global food security crisis

In today’s newsletter: How countries have responded to record-breaking temperatures – and what it will take to change minds and policy

In at least 17 countries, suicide remains a criminal offence – a ‘huge barrier’ to mental health care. As Ghana becomes one of four countries to overturn its law in a year, others could follow

Competitions like Miss World now feel like relics of a sexist past. Sarah Ingram explores how beauty contests are moving the focus away from physique to try and clean up their act