Al Jazeera English - Americas - Economic crisis overshadows UN meet

Ban Ki-Moon, the UN secretary general, has urged world leaders to put aside their national interests and show "global leadership" in the face of world economic turmoil.

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Al Jazeera English - Americas - UN holds conference on 'terrorism'

The United Nations has held its first conference on how to better support those affected by attacks by armed groups around the world.

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Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Earthquake shakes southern Iran

An earthquake with an initial reading of 6.1 on the Richter scale has struck southern Iran.

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Three foreign female aid workers killed in Afghanistan

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EU gives 1 mln euro humanitarian aid for S.Ossetia

The European Commission has released 1 million euros ($1.52 million) in humanitarian aid for civilians affected by the fighting in South Ossetia, it said in a statement.

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West appeals to Russia for Georgia ceasefire

Western powers appealed to Russia on Monday for an immediate ceasefire in the Caucasus after Moscow pushed troops further into Georgia and Tbilisi shelled the Russian-held region of South Ossetia.

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South Ossetians flee cellars for safety in Russia

A safe haven in Russia was almost within sight for refugees from South Ossetia's besieged capital on Monday as they waited in parched streets for buses to ferry them over the border.

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Blog: Humanitarian work - it's the new black

Stop me if you've heard this one: At an open-air concert somewhere, Bono is called to the stage to speak to the crowd.

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U.N. abandons Eritrea-Ethiopia peace mission

The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to end its eight-year peacekeeping mission between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

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Iraq Palestinians to go to Europe

The UN's refugee agency says a group of about 200 Palestinians stranded for two years on the Iraq-Syria border will be resettled in Sweden and Iceland soon.

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Burmese still struggling after cyclone

It has been three months since Cyclone Nargis struck Burma, leaving 130,000 people dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.

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Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - Pakistan floods displace thousands

Officials in Pakistan say floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have destroyed thousands of homes and caused at least 27 deaths.

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Al Jazeera English - Asia-Pacific - Children 'left out' of Asia's boom

The widening gap between rich and poor in Asia's booming economies is leaving many mothers and children behind and putting children's lives at risk, according to a new UN report.

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New AIDS vaccine blueprint calls for more focus

AIDS vaccine researchers should move to smaller, more focused trials and dump any vaccines that do not show strong promise, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative said on Tuesday.

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Food shortages warning for Nepal

The government of Nepal and the UN have warned that hundreds of thousands of people in the country are facing severe food shortages.

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Al Jazeera English - Americas - Clinton urges stronger Aids effort

Bill Clinton, the former US president, has said more must be done to address the global Aids crisis and warned there was no "silver bullet" to defeat the disease.

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Al Jazeera English - Americas - Brazil launches global Amazon fund

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has launched an international fund to finance conservation and sustainable development in the Amazon.

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Al Jazeera English - Focus - Arab media deny ignoring Darfur

A number of Arab journalists have rejected criticism that Arabic-language media has ignored the Darfur conflict.

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Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - India pledges aid to Afghanistan

India has pledged $450 million in aid to Afghanistan for reconstruction in addition to existing commitments.

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MSF evacuates teams after series of assaults on staff in North Darfur

"After these violent attacks, we have had to suspend activities and evacuate all our staff from Tawila and Shangil Tobaya," said Munica Camacho, MSF Head of Mission in Darfur.

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Somalia bomb kills 21 women street cleaners

A roadside bombing in Somalia's capital killed 21 women who were cleaning rubbish from a southern Mogadishu street on Sunday morning, a hospital official said.

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Al Jazeera English - Americas - Global Aids conference kicks off

The global Aids conference has opened in Mexico with an appeal for the world not to waver in fighting a disease that has claimed more than 25 million lives and placed 33 million others under its shadow.

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DEBATE: Are aid agencies ready for the blogosphere?

As one blogging true believer has said, blogs should be written while sitting in front of the computer in dirty pyjamas. They're not the type of thing you write while wearing a suit.

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Al Jazeera English - Africa - UN votes to extend Darfur mission

The UN Security Council has voted to keep its peacekeepers in the troubled Darfur region of Sudan after last-minute haggling over African concerns about a possible indictment of Sudan's president on genocide charges.

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UGANDA: Starvation risk to 1m in northeast

More than a million people are at risk of starvation in Uganda's semi-arid and remote northeastern regions and over 40,000 children are suffering acute to moderate malnutrition, a government official said.

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