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New York: The rate of deforestation has slowed over the last 10 years, but each year an area roughly the size of Costa Rica is still destroyed, according to a comprehensive forest review by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

New York: Slavery and slavery-like practices still continue in many parts of the world, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned calling for renewed international commitment to ensure that all forms of slavery are finally eradicated.

It is one thing to be a yoga guru and another to head a political party. Baba Ramdev, who has just launched his new political outfit “Bharat Swabhiman Party” may discover this very soon. Millions of his disciples wonder whether his political venture will succeed while political parties prophesy that he will vanish soon.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Local currency bond markets in emerging East Asia expanded 16.5% in 2009, with $4.4 trillion in paper outstanding at the end of December, and should continue to grow in 2010, according to the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) quarterly Asia Bond Monitor.

New York: Unemployment rates are artificially low in Asia and the Pacific because many people hold jobs in the informal sector, according to a United Nations report that provides a comparison of economic, social and environmental trends in the region.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the first review of Bosnia and Herzegovina's economic performance under a program supported by a 36-month Stand-By Arrangement (SBA). The completion of the review enables the immediate disbursement of an amount equivalent to SDR 121.75 million (about € 138.4 million or US$ 184.6 million), bringing total disbursements under the program to an amount equivalent to SDR 304.38 million (about € 345.9 million or US$ 461.4 million).

New York: The first decade of the new millennium was the warmest on record, the United Nations weather monitoring agency has announced.

New York: Gorillas could disappear from large parts of the Greater Congo Basin in central Africa by the mid-2020s unless urgent action is taken to safeguard their habitats and counter poaching, a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and INTERPOL has warned.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the fifth review of Hungary's economic performance under a program supported by a Stand-By Arrangement (SBA). The completion of the review makes available SDR 725 million (about €825 million or US$1,100 million), but the authorities do not intend to draw this amount.

New York: Bangladesh has become the first South Asian country to ratify the pact that established the International Criminal Court (ICC) and gave it a mandate for trying people accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.