Americans tend to assume imaginary faces are male
There may be a reason we see a man, rather than a maiden, in the moon. When people spot facelike patterns in inanimate objects,...
Maria Temming
New insights into quality of care for girls and women facing medical complications due to unsafe abortion were published on Wednesday by the UN health...
More than eight million new COVID-19 cases were reported in the Americas last week, the highest weekly caseload since the start of the pandemic,...
Bachelet: ‘We need to push back against hatred’
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, warned on Wednesday that “racism and xenophobia are rising sharply”, highlighting violent attacks on Jewish sites and antisemitic incidents reported in many countries....
‘We cannot abandon the people of Afghanistan’ Guterres tells Security Council
With Afghanistan “hanging by a thread” six months after the Taliban takeover, the world cannot abandon the country now – for the sake of...
Tonga tsunami: ‘Kids were screaming as if a war was upon us’
A Tongan family’s trip to visit relatives on Mango island earlier this month turned into a nightmare, when the country was devastated by the...
Military solution for Syria remains ‘an illusion’: Pedersen
With no shifts in the frontlines in almost two years, the UN Special Envoy for Syria warnedt he Security Council about “a strategic stalemate” in the nearly 11-year-old war. Read the full story, “Military solution for...
Machine learning points to prime places in Antarctica to find meteorites
The hunt for meteorites may have just gotten some new leads. A powerful new machine learning algorithm has identified over 600 hot spots in...
UN mourns ‘true pioneer’: Brigadier General Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu
For the United Nations’ Secretary General, Brigadier General Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu, who passed away this week in her home country, Ghana, was “a true pioneer.” ...
Heatwave and Drought Hit South Americas Crops and Economy
BUENOS AIRES, Jan 26 (IPS) – Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, the three major agricultural producers in South America, are currently experiencing a prolonged period...
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak 
Less than 4 years from development goals deadline, progress shows what’s possible 
Sexual violence against civilians and POW’s in Ukraine widespread and ‘abhorrent’ 
‘Violence will only defer a problem’: UN Assembly President on trust, AI and lessons from the Rohingya crisis