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NEW DELHI: The Bombay Sensitive Index or Sensex had gone down by 311 points on April 28. Scores of Indian stock investors have lost money. It is not unique. Throughout Asia, and for that matter, the world, investors lost because of mismanagement of funds by faraway Greece. Such is the integrated nature of our globalised world today. One does not know, the house prices or price of steel pay be affected and the world might have what many economists have been saying a “double-dip recession”.

New York: Iran can use next week's global gathering on disarmament at United Nations Headquarters to reassure other States of its peaceful nuclear intentions, the forum's chair said as he urged countries to exchange ideas on how to cut the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons.

New York: An estimated 60,000 Haitian children under the age of five will receive life-saving vaccinations in a major immunization campaign that kicks off in the Caribbean country on Saturday, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has announced.

New York: Recent tensions in Lebanon and the region highlight the need to tackle unresolved issues related to the country's sovereignty and stability, such as the presence of armed militias, a senior United Nations envoy has said.

New York: Five more States have signed a United Nations treaty that aims to curb illegal fishing by denying port docking rights to ships involved in the illicit practice.

New York: United Nations peacekeepers in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have airlifted four endangered gorillas to a safer habitat to keep them from being illegally trafficked or eaten before they are released back into the wild.

Asia is leading the global recovery and the region's contribution to global growth will continue to exceed that of other regions in the next two years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said today in its latest Regional Economic Outlook (REO) for Asia and the Pacific. The IMF revised upward its growth forecast for Asia to 7.1 percent for 2010, 1¼ percentage points higher than projected in October 2009, and expects that growth to maintain the same pace in 2011.

New York: The Security Council has extended for another year the mandate of the United Nations mission supporting the 2005 agreement that ended the decades-long north-south civil war in Sudan, stressing the need to complete all remaining tasks under the peace pact.

New York: The United Nations commission that settles damage claims in connection to Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait has made $590 million available to nine successful claimants.

New York: A non-profit organization that helps make computers available to children is partnering with the United Nations to provide laptops to nearly half a million refugees in the occupied Palestinian territory.