UNITED NATIONS

The "State of Palestine" isn't really a state, but that's what the plaque read at the Security Council. What ensued? A fight with Israel.

Is ecotourism a ticket out of poverty and the key to preserving our environment? The UN thinks so.

A U.N. helicopter that crashed -- killing all four crew members aboard -- in South Sudan on Friday was shot down by the country's armed forces.

The one-billionth tourist is predicted to cross an international border on Thursday, marking a milestone in human interaction.

There has never really been a sovereign state called Palestine.

Germany abstained from voting in Thursday evening's vote on the status of Palestine at the U.N.

Both the U.S. and Israel suspect Tehran is building nuclear bombs at its nuclear development facilities.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon addressed the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People on Thursday morning, prior to a vote on Palestine's status at the U.N.

U.S. Sen. John McCain indicated a softening of his opposition to Susan Rice's promotion from ambassador to the United Nations to secretary of state.

President Barack Obama said he thinks he "can do that move," otherwise known as the dance craze "Gangnam Style."

Pakistan is believed to already possess between 90 and 110 nuclear warheads.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan took the United Nations Security Council to task Saturday over its inaction during the Syrian Civil War.

The IMF cut its global growth forecast Tuesday morning for the second time since April and warned U.S. and European policy makers that failure to fix their economic ills would prolong the slump.

The world population is getting older with every passing year. This is one aging process that cannot be ignored.

If President Barack Obama was serious last week when he addressed the United Nations, then he has just quietly declared war on the First Amendment.

Egyptian President Morsi will give his first speech at the U.N. Wednesday; Iran's Ahmadinejad will give his last as president.

At the Clinton Global Initiative, Romney lists assistance, increased trade and growing businesses among Middle East foreign policy plans.

President Obama will spend his second day in New York, while Vice President Joe Biden will rally voters in Virginia.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greeted Myanmar democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, DC.

The high abortion rate of female fetuses has led to a dramatic gender imbalance in India ? over the fifty-year period from 1961 to 2011, the number of girls born per 1,000 boys plunged from 976 to 914, according to the census.

The Iranian nuclear technology dance continued Tuesday as EU foreign affairs chief Ashton met with Iranian National Security Council Secretary Jalili.