North Korea has sparked alarm around the world by testing a nuclear bomb. The reclusive communist state has confirmed it has successfully conducted...

The Sun has placed an advert in a Buenos Aires newspaper telling Argentina to keep its "hands off" the Falkland Islands. The move comes a day after...

The Guardian has been slammed as "money grabbing" and "disrespectful" on social media sites after publishing in one of its adverts a letter from the A...

Israel and Gaza are under international pressure to agree on a ceasefire, after six days of air strikes and rocket attacks which have killed 110 Pales...

Islamic radicalists based in Britain are reportedly preparing to issue a fatwa on Malala Yousafzai. According to controversial cleric Anjem Chouda...

First Britney, now Ban Ki-moon. The UN general secretary certainly led to a few raised eyebrows (and pleas to make it stop) when he danced to Gang...

Over a decade ago, 21 September was chosen for this honorable role but it's still one of the best kept secrets of the United Nations. On Friday at UN Headquarters in NY, a boy will ring a bell, a girl will sing Imagine and at noon, guests will experience one minute of silence.

President Bashar al-Assad has begun moving chemical weapons to airports in case of "external aggression", according to the Free Syrian Army (FSA). ...

Syria is on the edge of full-scale civil war following the latest violence in the country, United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon warned. Spe...

Bashar Al Assad must be rubbing his hands with glee. His heavily armed security forces and henchmen are killing the Syrian people right under the noses of the UN observers and the noses and ears of the silent witnesses Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-Moon. The UN and NATO are unwittingly providing cover for the massacres in Syria.

North Korea’s military has threatened to reduce South Korea’s government "to ashes" amid escalating tensions between the two countries. A stat...

The Syrian government has not kept its promises on a crucial ceasefire deal and continues to station tanks and troops in residential areas, UN Secreta...

Each day the news of Syria gets worse. As a human rights activist told Oxfam, "the situation is hell. In areas under attack, people do not have enough food." Earlier this week, the Syrian Red Cross finally entered Baba Amr with Baroness Amos, but members of the International Committee of the Red Cross, who have been attempting to visit Baba Amr since Friday, remained barred from the neighbourhood. Like everyone else, I feel horror and frustration at the world's seeming inability to stop the killing and help those in need.

The UN General Assembly has backed resolution calling for an end to the violence in Syria, and for President Bashar al-Assad to leave power. 137 co...

Syrian officials involved in the brutal suppression of anti-regime protests will eventually be held accountable for their actions, Western diplomats h...