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As the Copenhagen conference gets into its crucial negotiating phase, the Indian delegation faces major challenges. The biggest is how to work for an ambitious, strong, comprehensive and equitable agreement, which quickly caps and reduces global greenhouse emissions and avert a climate catastrophe.

Even if the Congress feared that K. Chandrashekhara Rao's death will set off a turmoil which will be difficult to control, it could have used other methods to defuse the situation instead of hastily conceding the demand for a separate Telangana.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Emerging East Asian economies have performed better than anticipated thanks to swift policy responses and an improved external environment. The region is set for a speedy recovery this year and in 2010.

New York: Multilingualism must be fostered on the Internet to help bridge the digital divide and the United Nations stands in the forefront of those seeking to promote linguistic diversity in the interests of greater political, economic and cultural access for all, a top UN official said.

New York: The levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be much higher if oceans did not absorb the amount they do, but this has lead to their rising acidity levels, according to a new United Nations-backed study.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the fifth review of Burkina Faso's performance under an economic program supported by a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) arrangement.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the third review of Zambia's economic performance under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) arrangement. The completion of the review will enable the immediate disbursement of an amount equivalent to SDR 51.013 million (about US$ 81.2 million), bringing total disbursements to SDR 164.91 million (about US$ 262.5 million).

New York: More than three quarters of those people who died in disasters this year lost their lives to extreme weather events, which caused nearly $15 billion in damages worldwide, the top United Nations official on disaster risk reduction announced.

New York: The head of the United Nations agency tasked with safeguarding intellectual property rights today welcomed the European Union's ratification of the so-called Internet Treaties.

New York: Trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna would be banned and trade in certain types of shark controlled if the recommendations of a United Nations-backed group of independent experts are accepted by the parties to an international treaty on endangered species.