Reuters - The United Nations is confident there will be no security vacuum in Haiti as U.S. and other foreign troops withdraw from the earthquake-struck Caribbean country, a top U.N. official said on Tuesday.

AP - An emotional Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon paid tribute Tuesday to the 101 heroes working for the United Nations who were killed in the Haiti earthquake, the single greatest loss for the world body in its 64-year history.

United Nations human rights investigators called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to prosecute the accused September 11 masterminds in a civilian court, declaring that U.S. military tribunals would not be fair.

Visiting Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom on Monday said the time has come for the UN Security Council to impose crippling sanctions on Iran over its nuclear defiance.

AP - A U.N. human rights investigator said Monday that numerous people have complained to her of being forced from their homes or priced out of the housing market as a result of large events such as the World Cup.

While celebrities earn notoriety from publicly going into rehab, millions of impoverished drug addicts are being ostracized, do not have access to doctors and are often imprisoned, a senior U.N. official said Monday.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he sent a letter to Myanmar's junta chief to voice concern about the credibility of this year's nationwide election, the country's first in 20 years.

Developing countries could face a health disaster if wealthy countries fail to control drugs, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime warned on Monday.

KIGALI, Rwanda — The United Nations World Food Program announced Thursday that it would not give any new contracts

UNITED NATIONS - It took a while for the United Nations to acknowledge errors by its Nobel-prize winning climate panel and order an independent review.