UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened a UN food security summit on Monday calling for a "single global vision" to address the plight of the world's billion hungry people.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon opened a UN food security summit on Monday calling for a "single global vision" to address the plight of the world's billion hungry people.

AP Exclusive: Muslim countries seek binding UN resolution to protect religion from blasphemy. Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery ? essentially, a ban on blasphemy.

UN urges help for 1 billion deprived children and hundreds of millions affected by violence. UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care ? and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence ? two decades after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights.

AP Exclusive: Muslim countries seek UN treaty to protect religion from blasphemy. Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery ? essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a collision course with free speech laws in the West.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Myanmar on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said on Thursday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the only country outside the pact, UNICEF said Friday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee condemned Iran on Friday for a violent crackdown on protesters after presidential elections this year that the Iranian opposition says were rigged.

UN calls on Southeast Asian Nations Association leaders to take tougher stance with Myanmar. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged a ministerial meeting of southeast Asian nations late Saturday to take a tougher line with fellow member Myanmar in hopes its military junta will free political prisoners and hold fair elections.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A speech to the U.N. General Assembly by a representative of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya's government has been postponed from Saturday to Monday, a U.N. official said.

President praises NYPD for 'exceptional teamwork' during aide's briefing on terror case. President Barack Obama praised the police department on Saturday for its work in disrupting a possible terrorist bombing plot aimed at commuter trains.

UN calls on Southeast Asian Nations Association leaders to take tougher stance with Myanmar. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged a ministerial meeting of southeast Asian nations late Saturday to take a tougher line with fellow member Myanmar in hopes its military junta will free political prisoners and hold fair elections.

Sri Lankan troops opened fire to stop dozens of war-displaced Tamil civilians from escaping a government-run camp where they have been detained in the island's north, the military said Sunday.

The Turkish government will ask parliament to extend a mandate for military strikes on Kurdish rebel bases in neighbouring Iraq, a report quoted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying Sunday.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he plans to visit Iran next month to help resolve the dispute over Tehran's nuclear programme, Anatolia news agency reported Sunday.

Sri Lankan troops opened fire to stop dozens of war-displaced Tamil civilians from escaping a government-run camp where they have been detained in the island's north, the military said Sunday.

Sri Lankan troops opened fire to stop dozens of war-displaced Tamil civilians escaping from a government camp where they have been detained in the island's north, the military said Sunday.

UN chief, Netherlands, Slovakia admonish Iran for new secret nuclear program. Iran's sudden revelation of a formerly secret uranium enrichment plant brought more condemnation Saturday at the U.N. General Assembly, with the Netherlands calling Tehran's presumed weapons program "a major challenge to international peace and security."

The United States doubts Iran can convince the international community next week that its nuclear program is peaceful, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in an interview broadcast Sunday.