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The world’s food import bill is likely to make a record-breaking leap to unprecedented heights, while policies to stabilize prices might have backfired, the WTO Agriculture Committee heard on 17 November 2011.

New York: Large amounts of carbon dioxide emitted by chemicals used increasingly in air conditioners, refrigerators, fire-fighting equipment and insulation foams could undermine efforts to keep global temperature rise under two degrees Celsius this century, according to a report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

New York: Broad international support exists for a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East, although there are long-standing differences of opinion about it among the region’s countries, the head of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today.

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Macedonia, FYR) subscribed today to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS), bringing the number of subscribing countries to 69. Macedonia, FYR is the 10th country to graduate to the SDDS from the IMF’s General Data Dissemination System, which the country has participated in since February 4, 2004.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing emergency assistance of $3 million to help Thailand get back on its feet in the wake of the country’s worst flooding in more than half a century.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have agreed to work more closely on a range of projects to build capacity and promote public private partnerships across the Caucasus and Central Asia.

New York: More than one million Zimbabweans will struggle for food between now and March, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), which has already begun assisting the most vulnerable but needs $42 million to fund its activities in the Southern African nation.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, headed by Corinne Deléchat, visited Panama between November 7–18 to conduct the country’s annual Article IV consultation.

New Delhi: India has taken exception to the US Department of State website displaying northwestern part of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) as Pakistan territory.

NEW DELHI: The public image of Vijay Mallya may have sullied public judgment about Kingfisher airlines woes. With his goatee beard, tousled hair, fancy goggles, designer clothes, Mr Mallya is not exactly the typical Indian industrialist. He is loud, more loud and even more loud. Going by his public pronouncement on his besieged airline company, the king of good times surely must have run into trouble. To top that up, the talks about his exotic island homes in exquisite seas, further cloud the public estimation.