The UN chief said 16 UN personnel were confirmed dead in the earthquake that shook Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, with 100-150 UN workers still unaccounted for, including the mission chief and his deputy.

AS many as 100,000 people are thought to have died in the devastating earthquake which shook the capital of Haiti.

IRISH nationals in Haiti yesterday told of the horrific impact of the massive earthquake.

NORWAY takes the number one spot in the annual United Nations human development index released yesterday but China has made the biggest strides in improving the well-being of its citizens.

Ireland ranks fifth in the world in terms of quality of life, according to a UN report released today.

The United Nations is to audit all its operations in North Korea, where the US claims that money from at least one UN programme could be ending up illegally in the hands of the communist regime.

A United Nations agency said today it has organised a lottery offering the possibility of prizes like DVD players or refrigerators when illegal weapons left over from the Bosnian war are handed in to authorities.

ONE-in-five Lebanese has been made homeless by the ongoing violence between Hezbollah and Israel, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday.

Ireland is to contribute over €40m the United Nations for vital development work, it was confirmed today.

THE UN yesterday lent its support to a project which aims to ship inexpensive, hand-cranked laptops to school-aged children worldwide.

Wildlife experts are celebrating the sightings of two groups of rare Asiatic cheetahs in central Iran during recent months, raising hopes that one of the world’s fastest moving creatures could be saved from extinction, conservation officials said today.

OVER the next decade, two million children will die, 40 million people will be without safe drinking water, and five million children will be forced out of school if current trends continue in 14 countries across Asia and the Pacific that are among the world’s least developed, a UN report said yesterday.

Over the next decade, two million children will die, 40 million people will be without safe drinking water, and five million children will be forced out of school if current trends continue in 14 countries across Asia and the Pacific that are among the world’s least developed, a UN report said today.

U2 frontman Bono was expected to urge rich countries to help end world poverty at the launch of a United Nations report in Dublin today.

The international community was today discussing plans for the recovery and rebuilding of Afghanistan, which the United Nations likens to the five-year reconstruction of war-ravaged Mozambique that cost $6.5bn (£4bn).