London: 101-year-old Madge Brown and 94-year-old Sheila Gordon, who are both residents of the Isle of Wight, received their honorary degrees, decades after they qualified as teachers.

Taipei: Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense (MND) has said it tracked seven Chinese military aircraft and three naval vessels around Taiwan between 6 am on Tuesday (March 7) and 6 a ...

New York: UN-led efforts to prevent a catastrophic oil spill in the Red Sea took a major step forward on Thursday with the announcement of a deal to purchase a vessel that will remove mor ...

New York: Amid the biggest reported missile attack on Ukraine in weeks, the UN’s atomic energy agency, IAEA, said on Thursday that Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant had to switch to ...

New York: A UN independent human rights expert criticized the United States for using extraterritorial jurisdiction to impose sanctions on foreign individuals, in a statement issued on Th ...

New York: The Fifth UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) concluded on Thursday with countries adopting concrete measures to implement the Doha Programme of Action (DPoA) ...

New York: A proposed new global online university “has enormous potential to lend hope, learning and access to marginalized groups who presently could not reach higher education.&rd ...

New York: The Syrian conflict will only be resolved if all parties involved in it are prepared to make the kind of compromises on humanitarian grounds that followed last month’s ear ...

New York: Speaking in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Wednesday, the Secretary-General assured President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the United Nations “will continue to seek solutions ...