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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.

New York: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for strengthening the international treaty banning chemical weapons as a way to honour all those who have lost their lives to this scourge.

New York: Brazilian soccer sensation and the youngest Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Kaká is appealing to the millions set to tune into this summer's World Cup to take a stand against hunger.

New York: The head of the United Nations agency tasked with upholding press freedom has called for a full investigation into the “tragic” death in jail of a newspaper editor in Cameroon.

WASHINGTON ─ The World Bank has approved a $12 million IDA credit to Bhutan, designed to improve infrastructure services in parts of the capital city of Thimphu where no formal services are currently available.

WASHINGTON ─ The World Bank has approved a US$$117.70 million IDA credit to India, designed to improve quality of and access to health services in the state of Tamil Nadu. This comes as additional financing to the Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project which was approved on December 16, 2004 with an IDA credit amount of US$110.83 million.