A UN report has found that UN Peacekeepers regularly barter goods for sex with women and children in Haiti and Liberia.

Rescue crews working under the glare of floodlights dug through the rubble of a collapsed school in Haiti early today in a frantic search for students who may still be trapped in a disaster that has already killed at least 47 people.

Statistics, as we know, can be infuriatingly boring. However, in the case of the Darfur tragedy they can be helpful to understand the seriousness of the situation.

UN peacekeepers and Afghan police have uncovered a cache of 151 Chinese-made rockets on the road between Kabul and Bagram.

At least 55 people were injured today when violence broke out a soccer match between UN peacekeepers and a local team in the Afghan capital, Kabul.