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New York: The United Nations atomic energy agency and the pharmaceutical firm Roche launched an initiative to help combat a growing cancer epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

New York: Three recent incursions of foot-and-mouth disease in Japan and the Republic of Korea, which were officially free of such outbreaks, has led the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to issue a call for increased global surveillance.

New York: The head of the United Nations labour arm has called for enhanced prevention in the face of emerging risks in the workplace as he marked this year's World Day for Safety and Health at Work.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Five banks in Azerbaijan today signed trade finance agreements with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a move that will help local companies conduct more international trade and become more closely integrated into regional and global business networks.

New Delhi: India becomes the new Chairman of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Council 2010. Shri R N Jha, Deputy Director General, Department of Telecommunication took over the rotating Chairmanship from Ghana in a meeting recently at Geneva. The Council, ITU's governing body comprises 46 Member States.

New Delhi: ISRO is planning to launch 10 satellites in a year. The actual number of satellites to be launched will be decided based on national developmental priorities.

LUCKNOW: The recent bonhomie between Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party which bailed UPA government during cut motion on finance bill has not only confused the party workers of the both the parties but political analysts as well.

At a special conference, held somewhere in the Dantewada region, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) strategic-policy-framers directed the leading comrades and their following not to criticize 'friendly' intellectuals, even if the latter 'criticise our methods'. The meet - neither a party congress nor a plenary session of the central committee, took place a few days before the killing of 76 para-military cops including 75 CRPF jawans.

New York: Negotiations on the unification of Cyprus should continue where they left off, the United Nations envoy tasked with steering the talks said as he made his first public remarks since the election of a new Turkish Cypriot leader.

New York: The top United Nations humanitarian official traveled to south-eastern Niger to assess the human impact of a grave food crisis that has affected more than half of the West African country's 14 million people.