The UN chief on Monday issued a statement expressing deep sadness at the death of 15 people, including 11 children, at a school in...
The UN and its humanitarian partners are stepping up efforts to assist more than 150,000 people who have been impacted by fighting across the...
The Security Council must act urgently to support Haiti as the gang, economic, and fuel supply crises there “intersect in altogether new and frightening...
NASA’s DART spacecraft just smashed into an asteroid — on purpose
Mission control rooms rarely celebrate crash landings. But the collision of NASA’s DART spacecraft with an asteroid was a smashing success. At about 7:15...
In Maya society, cacao use was for everyone, not just royals
In ancient Maya civilization, cacao wasn’t just for the elites. Traces of the sacred plant show up in ceramics from all types of neighborhoods...
Central African Republic: Said trial opens at International Criminal Court
The trial of a paramilitary commander accused of carrying out or ordering crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR)...
UN chief calls for an end to ‘nuclear blackmail’ and risk of ‘humanitarian Armageddon’
In an era of “nuclear blackmail”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday urged countries to step back from the threat of potential global catastrophe...
ILO welcomes first global agreement on professional footballers’ rights
The UN’s labour agency welcomed on Monday, the first ever global agreement on working conditions and rights of professional football players in both the...
South Sudan violence proliferating, warn independent rights experts
Deeply disturbing violence is escalating “all over” South Sudan, top independent UN human rights experts have warned. Read the full story, “South Sudan violence...
Of the Mexican Joke and the Nuclear Top Guns
MADRID, Sep 26 (IPS) – A Mexican joke goes: “I kill people for money. But you are my best friend, so I will kill...
Guterres urges faster action and financing to stop biodiversity loss 
Horned dinosaurs’ weapons evolved to handle the forces of combat 
Artemis II results show how much science people can do at the moon 
Ebola Spread Raises Fresh Urgency for Africa’s Domestic Health Funding