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Civilians at the UN House compound on the southwestern outskirts of Juba, South Sudan.

The economy is again facing the prospect—or threat—that the Federal Reserve may make another attempt to begin to "exit" from its years-long "quantitative easing" (QE) which has made all markets in the world dependent on an inherently hyperinflationary, and actually "no-exit" policy. That policy has already constituted a crushing blow to the U.S. economy, and a crime against the U.S. Constitutional policy of national banking and credit which was known as the Hamiltonian, or "American System of economy."

Representatives of South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, and rebel leader Riek Machar, are launching peace talks in Ethiopia in a bid to end spiraling civil unrest that has claimed more than 1,000 lives. The peace talks mark the first meeting between the two sides since the conflict erupted in mid-December.

Rebels fighting to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and government forces are trying to improve their battlefield positions in the remaining weeks before peace talks are due to take place in Geneva between the warring sides, analysts say.

WFP has provided food assistance to more than 500,000 displaced people across the Central African Republic (CAR).

Wide view of the Security Council.

China and the United States faced several major sources of tension in their relations in 2013, overshadowing their efforts to build what they called a "new model" of ties between two major powers.

The humanitarian tragedy in the Central African Republic continues to unravel in front of our eyes. The entire population of 4.6 million people is affected. 800,000 people are internally displaced. Since early December in the capital Bangui alone, the number of internally displace people (IDPs) has grown from 30,000 to now over 370,000. 230,000 people have sought refuge in neighbouring countries, underlining the regional dimension of the disaster.

A bomb blast ripped apart a trolleybus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd Monday, killing 14 people in the second suicide bombing in the city in as many days.

An illegal dump site along the newly-built 48-kilometer combined high-speed railway and road linking the coastal and mountain clusters of venues hosting the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi.