UNITED NATIONS

President Ollanta Humala, who took office in July, is trying to ramp up social spending to fight poverty without scaring away investors in Peru, one of the world's fastest-growing economies.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization voted overwhelmingly in favor of granting full membership to the Palestinian Authority, but it will cost the agency the United States' portion of its funding.

With Gadhafi gone and Libya's new government still in its infancy, the United Nations Security Council is worried that the weapons could fall into the hands of militants groups or be put into circulation.

At least 48 chemical and defense companies were victims of a coordinated cyber attack that has been traced to a man in China, according to a new report from security firm Symantec Corp.

The United States announced to stop financial contribution to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation after the UN body voted to admit Palestine as its full member, which the Obama administration termed as regrettable and premature.

Ministers, tech executives and Internet activists from around the world gather in London on Tuesday to discuss how to tackle security threats and crime on the Internet without stifling economic opportunities or freedom of speech.

The world's population reaches seven billion and urbanization increases.

As the world population reaches 7 billion on Oct. 31, we take a look at the impact the rising population will have on the world's megacities.

Palestine became the 195th full member and will have a vote in the General Conference, which sets policy for UNESCO and elects members of its executive board. But the vote carried greater significance in the context of the Palestinian bid for full membership in the United Nations, something that the Security Council has yet to vote on.

NATO ends its military operation in Libya at midnight on Monday, seven months after launching an air and sea campaign that helped bring the overthrow and death of Muammar Gaddafi.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe denied speculation his health is failing and hinted at taking action against Swiss firms in retaliation for his wife and aides being denied visas to visit Geneva, the official Herald newspaper reported on Monday.

A car bomb explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killed five people Monday, including three United Nations employees near the offices of the UN refugee agency.

The seven-billionth human is expected to be born on Monday, but an expert who helps do the counting says that event comes as the Earth undergoes a demographic shift toward slower population growth.

Solar panels have, for good or ill, traveled a familiar but slow technological road. But manufacturing advances, booming investment and falling prices could, after nearly six decades, make solar panels the new normal.

The world's seven billionth baby was born Monday in the Philippines.

A suicide car bomber killed 13 foreign troops in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, the deadliest single ground attack in 10 years of war in Afghanistan.

The Philippines is seeking to turn around its economy from decades of subpar performance.

On Friday, the official campaign in DR Congo commenced.

By Monday, a mother will give birth to the seven billionth human living on Earth, experts predict.

An Israeli man who lives in Brooklyn pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of brokering a kidney transplant as of a black market organ business. This is the first human organ trafficking conviction in the United States.

Rescuers pulled out a teenage boy alive from the debris of a collapsed building in Ercis in eastern Turkey Friday, five days after a 7.2-magnitude quake rocked the region.