UNITED NATIONS

While Battleship's dialogue and character development and plot make very little sense, this 130-minute Hasbro commercial-slash-U.S. Navy recruiting ad does have a toehold in scientific fact.

State media said the Bashar al-Assad regime had called on the UN Security Council and Ban Ki-moon for assistance in tackling the escalating crimes committed by terrorists receiving help from abroad.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan attended the grand dinner hosted by Mukesh and Nita Ambani at their residence Antilia held in the honor of United Nations' Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.The party was also attended by Bollywood biggies like Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Karishma Kapoor, Javed Akhtar among others. What caught everyone's attention in the party was the supposed conversation between Ban and Aishwarya.

Speaking in Geneva on Tuesday, international envoy Kofi Annan said there is a profound concern that [Syria] could ... descend into full civil war.

The IAEA has posted no comment yet on the reported death.

How will the next Apple iPhone be named - New iPhone, iPhone 6 or iPhone 5? Nobody has enough clues to bet on any of them, until Apple makes an official announcement. But a recent complaint the Cupertino tech giant filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) hints that the company could be interested in the name iPhone 5.

Among the flurry of decrees Vladimir Putin issued after returning to the presidency for a historic third term were calls for faster privatization and government-sponsored boost in capital investment and closer ties with the US, based on equality, non-interference in internal affairs and respect for one another's interests.

Only hours after the alleged raid, Sudan pledged to cease hostilities with the South, warning it retained the right to defend itself against aggression from the south.

The IAEA has already demanded access to Iran?s atomic sites as long ago as November when it released a report detailing its suspicions that the Iranians were planning to develop nuclear bombs.

Security forces and pro-regime gunmen were called in to break up anti-government demonstrations in the city's main university complex after approximately 1,500 students began protesting in the main campus late on Wednesday.

The Brazilian military has launched a massive operation to crack down on drug trafficking, illegal logging and mining and other criminal activity in a vast, remote swath of the Amazon.

Sudan Thursday expressed hopes that South Sudan will respond positively to the African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN) calls to establish peace between the warring nations and steer clear of likely sanctions.

A new strain of foot and mouth disease (FMD) has reached the Gaza Strip and threatens to spread further after first being detected in Egypt and Libya in February, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday.

The U.S. tabled draft resolution, which seeks to apply economic sanctions on the two warring countries if they fail to de-escalate a growing border conflict, was presented to the five permanent members of the Security Council during a meeting in New York on Monday.

Aung San Suu Kyi, an important long-time pro-democracy leader in Myanmar, was sworn into parliament on Wednesday -- a historic development and positive sign for democracy in the military-led country.

Rebel forces reportedly killed 20 troops in a series of pre-dawn raids, including two colonels and 15 soldiers during an attack in the northern province of Aleppo.

Electronic signals originating from North Korea have been allegedly intercepting scores of civilian aircrafts in and out of South Korea, after Pyongyang's recent threats of offensive action, including a sacred war, against the South.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous told reporters both sides were responsible for creating an atmosphere of appalling violence and that despite the bloodshed, the small UN presence was having a dampening effect.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief who faced sexual assault charges, failed to convince a New York judge that he has immunity from the civil suit against him from his accuser, Nafissatou Diallo.

During their historic first meeting, United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon praised Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as a real leader (who) demonstrates flexibility for the greater cause of the people of a country.

The Chinese are benefiting from advances in transportation and communication, as well as policies established by the government,