Emma Watson said she is “so excited” to have been appointed the United Nation’s Women’s Goodwill Ambassador.

The UN Security Council condemned the violence in Kyrgyzstan and calling for calm and a return of the rule of law.

The United Nations’ top humanitarian official today demanded an immediate moratorium on the use of cluster bombs, a day after the international Red Cross stepped up its campaign against the weapons by calling for their outright abolition.

An internal UN investigation has concluded that a UN official steered millions of dollars in contracts to a company owned by the government of his native India, in exchange for favours that included low-rent apartments.

Burma’s ruling military junta extended the detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi today, defying international pressure to free the Nobel laureate.