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OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier (l) with the Romanian President Traian Basescu during his visit to Bucharest, 4 September 2012.

A young new arrival at Jordan’s Za’tari camp. His family fled violence in Syria’s Daraa governorate.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to Asia includes a visit to Beijing this week, where she will meet with Chinese leaders and try to tackle a broad range of issues. The trip comes as tensions are rising in the region over territorial disputes and as concerns grow in China about U.S. efforts to put more emphasis on ties with Asia.

The U.N. children's fund UNICEF says Syria's civil war killed 1,600 people last week, making it the deadliest seven-day period of the 18-month conflict.

Army 1st Lt. Torrence Yarborough, from the South Carolina Army National Guard's 218th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, meets with a role-playing coffee shop owner during a Kosovo Forces training exercise at the Joint Multi-national Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with Iranian Foreign Minister Aliakbar Salehi.

Nuclear tests remain a threat to human health and global stability.

Joint MONUSCO/FARDC patrol in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

A young new arrival at Jordan’s Za’tari camp. His family fled violence in Syria’s Daraa governorate.

Two United Nations employees have been sentenced by a Myanmar court in connection with the violent unrest that recently gripped the country’s Rakhine state in June, a spokesperson for the Organization said today.