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New York:The United Nations cultural agency today removed Germany's Dresden Elbe Valley from its World Heritage List due to the building of a four-lane bridge in the heart of the cultural landscape, marking only the second time that it has ever delisted a site.

World Trade Organization (WTO) is discussing the issue raised by some of the live pigs and pork products exporter countries regarding justifiability of the ban imposed by the importer countries.

New York:Characterizing the ongoing crisis in north-west Pakistan as the largest humanitarian emergency in the world today, United Nations Messenger of Peace Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein of Jordan has called for a massive international response to aid the hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people forced to live in makeshift shelters.

A strike in ailing Air-India, the government-owned national flag carrier, at this point of time can help none except its two major domestic rivals, Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines, both held by non-resident Indians. Then, why is a strike-like situation being created in Air-India to ground the airline?

CHANDIGARH: First it was scanty snowfall in the Himalayas last winter. Now it is the elusive monsoon. The northwestern region, The country's foodgrain and apple bowl, is in the grip of nature's fury. The water and power shortages created by the delayed monsoon and poor inflows into the Himalayan reservoirs which meet most of the water and hydro power requirements of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Chandigarh are posing a threat to the region's economy besides causing political unrest.

New York: Women's rights activists, senior military figures and top United Nations officials met in New York this week to discuss what the world body's former humanitarian chief Jan Egeland described as “one of the biggest conspiracies of silence in history” - the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.

VIENNA: The World Drug Report 2009, launched on June 24 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), shows that global markets for cocaine, opiates and cannabis are steady or in decline, while production and use of synthetic drugs is feared to be increasing in the developing world.

New York: Amid an increasingly brutal struggle for a bigger slice of the $50 billion global cocaine market between Central American drug cartels, the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has warned that legalizing narcotics would be an “historic mistake,” in a call for a global boost in drug treatment and crime control.

New York: Global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows dropped by more than 50 per cent in the first quarter of 2009, with the outlook remaining gloomy for the rest of the year, the United Nations agency that promotes commerce to fight poverty has said.

New York: United Nations-backed emergency efforts have successfully contained a massive Red Locust outbreak in Tanzania and upheld the livelihoods of millions of farmers, marking the first time that biopesticides have been used on a large-scale in Africa against the transboundary pests.