UNITED NATIONS

The world is forecast to grow hotter, sea levels to rise, intense weather to wreak even more destruction and the new deal struck by governments in Durban to cut greenhouse gas emissions will do little to lessen that damage.

Associates of Yasser Arafat offer personal recollections in a documentary screened in Dubai this week on his search for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that descended into violence and failed to lead to a Palestinian state.

Linden, who hailed from KwaZulu-Natal, reportedly asserted her innocence and claimed the drugs were planted in her suitcase.

The world is forecast to grow hotter, sea levels to rise, intense weather to wreak even more destruction and the new deal struck by governments in Durban to cut greenhouse gas emissions will do little to lessen that damage.

Local elections were held in Syria on Monday, but will a vote do anything to change the ongoing protests and unrest in the country?

A Saudi Arabian man has been sentenced to 2,080 lashes and 13 years in prison for continually raping his daughter over the course of seven years.

United Nations Climate Change Conference participants agreed on a pact Sunday that for the first time would force all the biggest polluters to take action to slow the pace of global changing.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich thrust himself into controversy on Friday by declaring that the Palestinians are an invented people who want to destroy Israel.

Victims of Bosnia's 1992-95 war had most of their anxieties over a film by Hollywood star Angelina Jolie put to rest at a private screening this week.

Ban Ki-moon's surprise visit to Mogadishu on Friday marked the first time since 1993 that a United Nations secretary-general had visited Somalia's capital city.

As people continue to migrate away from rural areas and into cities, cities that are growing to devour the land around it, the numbers of people living in slums, shanty towns and informal settlements are skyrocketing.

Governments worldwide must boost internet accessibility in order to nurture democracy and economic development, entrepreneur Loic Le Meur said at the prestigious LeWeb technology conference in Paris which he founded.

On Dec. 9, 1947, members of the Dutch armed forces murdered at least 431 men in the village of Rawagede.

South Sudan became the world’s newest republic this past July, following decades of civil war that killed some 1.5 million people, after seceding from Sudan.

Police are spread out across Kinshasa while 20,000 soldiers are on stand-by at military bases.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Barbara Walters that the crackdown in Syria was not his fault.

The world's three biggest polluters China, the United States and India refused to move toward a new legal commitment to curb their carbon emissions Tuesday, increasing the risk that climate talks will fail to clinch a meaningful deal this week.

U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, returned to Damascus on Tuesday after being removed from the country for his own safety in October.

Angelina Jolie is being sued for allegedly stealing a Croatian Journalist's story in her new film, In the Land of Blood and Honey, according to Radar.com.

Another Hamas MP Mohammad Abu Tei was deported from Jerusalem exactly one year ago.

Susan Lyne, chairman of Gilt Groupe, Inc. and former president of ABC Entertainment, talked about learning from failure and adjusting to digital realities during TheWrap's third-annual Power Women breakfast Monday morning at the Hotel Bel-Air.