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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Removing barriers to trade and investment will help advance integration efforts in South Asia and deliver sweeping benefits to the region, a new Asian Development Bank (ADB) study shows.

Governments should consider the potential of financial institutions to severely damage global financial and economic stability in assessing when firms are “too complex to fail,” according to the IMF.

New York: Despite good global cereal harvests this year, millions of people in dozens of poor countries are in desperate need of emergency humanitarian aid due to stubbornly high food prices, the United Nations agricultural agency warned in a report.

Results in the ten by-polls to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly are apparently not surprising to political analysts in general. They would not have been stupefied, had the ruling CPI(M)-Left Front lost in all ten seats.

A yawning rift has opened up in the climate negotiations just ahead of the Copenhagen conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change beginning on December 7. It centres on the issues of responsibility for climate change—unfolding through extreme weather events, rising sea-levels and rapid melting of ice-sheets and glaciers — and sharing the burden to remedy it.

Two recent events have exposed, yet again, the ugly fascist face of the RSS and the BJP. One was the shocking disclosure by a witness deposing before one of the many probes into the Narendra Modi government's conduct during the Gujarat riots. According to him, when Ehsan Jafri, the former Congress MP who was killed by a fanatical saffron mob, contacted Modi to seek help, the chief minister's response was to abuse him.

New York: An independent United Nations expert has warned that the United States is an increasingly expensive place to find housing, leaving many more people homeless at a time when the financial crisis is hitting hard across the country.

New York: Poor countries, already hit hard by the global financial and economic crisis in their efforts to fund social and health programmes, are facing a double blow this year with debt servicing increasing by over 17 per cent as a proportion of government revenue, a top United Nations trade official warned today.

New York: The United Nations crime tsar today blamed shady trading for the financial crisis that rocked most of the world last year, urging governments to use an international anti-corruption treaty to outline measures to restore trust in the financial system.

New York: Many of the world's countries continue to fail to meet the health-care needs of women at key stages of their lives, such as when they reach adolescence or when they are elderly, a new United Nations report has found.