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New York: Business leaders from around the world today pledged to slash their carbon emissions in areas ranging from energy, communications and construction at the end of a United Nations-backed summit in Mexico City.

New York: After visiting a nuclear power plant in eastern France, an international team led by the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has made recommendations on how to reinforce its safety practices.

KOLKATA: Given the long and often proud history of left-sponsored movements in West Bengal, few would have believed that the organised militant left would ever be reduced to copying the unorganised, indisciplined non left parties, bereft of tactics or strategy.

President Barack Obama's first visit to India early November is expected to inject new dynamism to the Indo-US strategic partnership, at a time of imperiled security in India's neighborhood and an America struggling to overcome its worst economic crisis since 1930s and restore its pre-eminence in the 21st century.

The Committee on Trade and Development of WTO, on 4 October 2010, approved a proposal by Brazil, China, India and the United States to establish a transparency mechanism for preferential trade arrangements. The proposal is to be transmitted to the General Council for adoption.

An IMF mission led by Catriona Purfield visited Sofia from September 23 to October 4 to discuss recent economic developments with the authorities.

Agriculture negotiations chairperson at WTO, David Walker told delegates on 1 October 2010 that he has begun consultations on issues that three members have suggested need clarifying in the present draft text.

New York: The deadly lead pollution crisis in the northern Nigerian state of Zamfara due to backyard gold digging is far from over, with hundreds of lives already lost and thousands of people at risk, a United Nations investigative team warned today.

New York: Eleven new sites of outstanding panoramic beauty and scientific importance, from subterranean rivers in China to Ice-Age-shaped landscapes in Finland, have been added to the United Nations-backed Global Network of National Geoparks.

New York: “Without sufficient numbers of well-trained and professionally motivated teachers, we risk falling short of the promise made 10 years ago at the World Education Forum to the world's children and youth [of education for all by 2015], because teachers are at the heart of the education system,” the heads of four major UN agencies said.