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Michael Schumacher has “moments of consciousness and awakening”, his spokeswoman said Friday, in a sign of progress months after the Formula One legend suffered devastating brain injuries in a ski accident. Doctors put Schumacher in a medically induced…

3 April 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today he is encouraged by the technical and security preparations and broad…

2 April 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today praised the commitment by small islands in the Pacific to…

2 April 2014 – A senior United Nations official today urged Afghans to use this Saturday’s presidential and provincial council…

2 April 2014 – The United Nations humanitarian wing is warning that life-saving assistance to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable…

3 April 2014 – Now in its fourth year, the Syrian conflict hit yet another bleak milestone today, as the…

2 April 2014 – The United Nations confirmed today that Palestinian Authority officials have presented letters for accession to 15…

31 March 2014 – A group of eight United Nations human rights independent experts today urged the Egyptian authorities to…

28 March 2014 – A senior United Nations official expressed deep concern today about the ongoing displacement of Palestinians in…

Venezuelan riot police fired water cannons and tear gas Thursday at stone-throwing student protesters in the capital Caracas, leaving at least seven injured. Demonstrators had initially been riled by armed vigilantes they link to the government after…

The United States said Thursday it has voiced concern to Iran on its potential selection of a UN ambassador with alleged links to the 1979 seizure of the US embassy. Iran has not announced a nominee to be its ambassador in the United Nations. But a…

Colombia’s Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez was being treated at a Mexico City hospital for a lung infection Thursday, his son and officials said. The health ministry said the 87-year-old author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” has…

David Letterman, a pillar of American late-night TV talk shows, announced Thursday that he’ll be stepping down as host of “Late Night” on CBS next year after a 22-year run. “We don’t have the timetable for this precisely down,” said Letterman, 66,…

American senior citizens are gradually finding their way to the Internet, but lagging the overall population in online usage, a survey showed Thursday. The Pew Research Center report showed that 59 percent of US adults age 65 or older use the Internet…

The US Senate’s intelligence panel voted 11-3 Thursday to declassify hundreds of pages of its detailed report on the CIA’s controversial Bush-era interrogation program. The move allows Senator Dianne Feinstein, the powerful chair of the Intelligence…

Ukraine’s Western-backed leaders on Thursday blamed Russian agents and the country’s ousted president of organising two days of bloodshed in February that claimed nearly 90 lives. The explosive allegations were levelled only moments before Russia responded…

Global police body Interpol on Thursday called for concerted international action to stem the highly lucrative tiger trade “if the species is to avoid extinction.” In a statement, the Lyon-based body called for the creation of a “cohesive global strategy…

A United States Chamber of Commerce representative made the official announcement today that the Copyright Alert System, also known as the “six-strike” system, is now fully in place across Internet Service Providers. We first caught wind of this…

Ground sensors and satellites will be deployed in a new bid to keep the ancient Roman city of Pompeii from crumbling following a series of recent collapses at the sprawling and long-neglected site near Naples. Italian aerospace and defence giant Finmeccanica…

The original scroll on which the Marquis de Sade wrote the draft of his novel on sexual depravity, murder and paedophilia “The 120 Days of Sodom” has finally been returned to France following years of legal wrangling. The parchment piece — originally…