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The world’s elected parliamentarians can play a leading role in tackling some of today’s global crises and challenges, including unconstitutional changes of government and threats to the rule of law, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed today.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is headed to Kabul for a major international gathering on Tuesday at which he will call on Afghans to unite in the interest of peace and development in their country.

The Obama administration has announced the United States will still be withdrawing troops from Iraq, as set in an earlier timetable.

A chaotic protest against reduced funding for HIV delayed the opening of the International AIDS Conference, where money, or the lack of it, is likely to dominate proceedings. Dozens of activists stormed the stage of Vienna's Reed Messe Centre, holding a giant banner reading "No Retreat, Fund AIDS".

Since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, top-secret intelligence gathering by the government has grown so unwieldy and expensive that no one really knows what it cost and how many people are involved, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Russia may have been caught spying on the U.S., but it turns that Moscow is also seeking new ways to monitor its own citizens.

USS George Washington, the U.S. Navy's only permanently, forward-deployed aircraft carrier will visit the Korean port of Busan July 21-25, 2010, officials at U.S. Forces Korea announced today.

Despite the United States making it clear on a number of occasions that it was for India and Pakistan to resolve all their outstanding issues, Islamabad has said that it would request America to use its influence and help in the settlement of the long pending river water sharing issue between both South Asian neighbours during the upcoming visit of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has urged both India and Pakistan to take lessons from European countries, who have realised that neighbours can not be changed, and talks were the only available option to resolve all outstanding issues.

Fidel Castro, the controversial former leader of Cuba, has been out of the public eye for over four years, but in the last ten days has made five public appearances and in each television interview he makes the same chilling prediction.