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New York: The United Nations yesterday marked World Toilet Day, stressing access to proper sanitation as a human right due to all, with a particular focus on “forgotten” prisoners and detainees in state institutions.

Mumbai and Singapore - A rebounding stock market that gained two-thirds in the past year and an economy growing at 6% have boosted the net worth of India's richest people, according to the latest Forbes' India Rich List. The combined net worth of India's 100 richest people is US$276 billion, almost a quarter of the country's GDP.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - A majority of the world's fatal traffic accidents occur in the Asia-Pacific region and concerted regional and country responses are needed to address the issue, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss has said.

The week-long visit to Asia, the first for President Barack Obama, whose childhood experiences of the Pacific region helped shape “my view of the world”, has turned out to be more a learning excursion into the emerging geopolitics of the vast dynamic region, currently leading the global recovery from the worst recession in decades.

Is the “quiet diplomacy” to resolve the Kashmir problem working? Apparently, the PMO and the Home Ministry are engaged in sounding out the various players and bring them to the table to resume negotiations.

New York: Although melting glaciers, rising sea levels and polar bears may be the faces of climate change, women - who bear the brunt of global warming - are on the front lines of its ravages.

New York: Nearly 250,000 Palestinians in 83 communities on the West Bank are at risk of heightened violence in so-called “price tag” revenge attacks that Israeli settlers may launch against a large-scale attempt by Israel to evacuate outposts it considers illegal, a United Nations report has warned.

New York: The three-day United Nations summit on world food security wrapped up in Rome with its host lamenting that it produced neither measurable targets nor specific deadlines for ending a scourge that afflicts more than 1 billion people around the planet.

New York: The 2009 harvest in Tajikistan is exceptionally good, but access to food remains difficult for vulnerable families in the Central Asian nation, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).

New York: Angola has requested the re-activation of a tripartite mechanism with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United Nations refugee agency to repatriate some 60,000 Angolans still in DRC in the wake of the mutual expulsion of scores of thousands of each other's nationals by the neighbouring States.