The UN Security Council on June 7 unanimously adopted a resolution to underline the importance of including UN peacekeeping missions into HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment strategies.

President Barack Obama on June 7 urged European countries and bondholders to prevent a "disastrous" default by Greece and pledged US support to help tackle the country's debt crisis.

The world's worst food security crisis is continuing in the eastern Horn of Africa, a US agency has warned.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's injuries from a rocket attack on his palace at the weekend were more serious than previously reported, a Yemeni official said, raising further questions about his rule.

US police are to search a rural house in eastern Texas, where they believe there is a mass grave.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in central and southern China after continuous downpours caused heavy flooding.

EU agriculture ministers are to hold emergency talks, as efforts continue to find the source of an E.coli outbreak which has killed 22 people.

Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant experienced full meltdowns at three reactors in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami in March, the country's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters said on Monday.

Ban Ki-moon formally asked members of the United Nations on Monday to support his candidacy for a second five-year term as U.N. secretary-general -- a goal he looks almost certain to achieve.

Five American soldiers died Monday when a barrage of rockets slammed into a base in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad — the largest, single-day loss of life for U.S. forces in Iraq in two years.