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A new version of the Global Resource & Information Directory (GRID) launched will provide governments, industry, law enforcement, educators and academics with a comprehensive digital resource to better protect children online including from sexual exploitation, said UNICEF and the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) on May 10.

Flags outside the UN Secretariat building.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein addresses the 31st regular session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Makeshift shelters and new tents at the new arrivals section of IFO camp, Kenya, in a December 2008 file photo.

A 2013 file photo shows humanitarian aid reaching internally displaced people in the Azzas area of northern Syria.

Two villagers in Benue state's Aguta district recover corrugated iron roofing from one of the many homes torched during attacks earlier this year.

Regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the spokesperson of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, expressed concern about the situation at the Line of Contact on May 6.

President Obama’s provocative policy in the Pacific is leading to a conflict between nuclear powers, and can have no other result if the policy is not quickly reversed. These provocations have gone so far as sailing destroyers straight into waters legitimately claimed as territorial waters by the People’s Republic of China, in alleged “freedom of navigation” patrols, and attempts to line up local “allies” to join in. While the naval deployments are accompanied by all sorts of high-falutin’ moralizing rhetoric from the U.S. government, in reality they have less justification than the European gunboats on the Yangtze in the 19th Century.

The UK’s leading life science companies have warned that leaving the EU could add risk to the wealth and health of the nation by bringing uncertainty to the industry, adding barriers to investment in the UK and threatening access to the latest medicines on 8 May.

Religious leaders.