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A wide view of the temporary General Assembly.

North Korea has made a blistering verbal attack on South Korean President Park Geun-hye, calling her a "faithful servant and stooge" of the U.S. and comparing her to a "blabbering" peasant woman.

Christian Ehler

Egyptian military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has resigned from the military and announced he will run for president. With few viable opponents to challenge the field marshal, his official status as the nation's leader seems all but assured.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, with Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt of Denmark.

The search for wreckage from a missing Malaysia airliner continued Wednesday in the remote waters of the southern Indian Ocean.

Air pollution now linked to 1 in 8 deaths worldwide

Unless the humanitarian situation inside South Sudan improves rapidly and radically for children and families, nearly a million people - mostly women and children - will face an even greater crisis both inside the South Sudan and in neighbouring countries, UNICEF said.

U.S. news outlets have reported that the Obama administration will propose new legislation that will ban the National Security Agency from the collection and storing of massive amounts of Americans' phone records.