Ban Ki-moon

Marking a leap for its space program, South Korea launched a domestically made rocket into space on Thursday, but it failed short of delivering a dummy payload into orbit. After ...

UNITED NATIONS—Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that reducing tensions on the Korean peninsula is one of the most ...

The United Nations has, at long last, accepted some responsibility that it played a part in a cholera ...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said a shaky cease-fire in Syria is holding "by and large" despite sporadic fighting ...

The United Nations launched an appeal on Wednesday for $393 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan to help ...

The Security Council pledged Wednesday to swiftly pursue new sanctions against North Korea, strongly condemning its latest nuclear ...

Talks on a universal climate pact shifted to a higher gear Monday with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging ...

To many, it feels as if the world is becoming a more violent place. Surprisingly, perhaps, the opposite ...

The latest developments in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence.

With no end in sight to weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence, Israeli PM Netanyahu headed to Germany for a ...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a surprise visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Tuesday, in ...

By promoting the hypothesis that humanity controls Earth’s climate, Pope Francis and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ...

The U.N. chief is taking aim at sexual abuse by peacekeepers, calling it "one of my greatest disappointments" ...

CONAKRY, Guinea—The worst Ebola outbreak on record has now killed more than 7,000 people, with many of the ...

NEW YORK—Anne Morel wants a house with her own chickens—solar paneled and self-sufficient.

Officials hope for continued peace as Kenyans await official election results, despite the attack that resulted in the ...

Some 37,000 girls under the age of 18 who are forced into childhood marriage every day, frequently with ...

South Sudan, the world’s newest nation, marked its first year of independence from Sudan Monday, but the sub-Saharan ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied his government was behind the massacre in Houla where more than 100 people ...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon met with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for the first ...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon on Sunday visited Burma.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accepted an invitation to visit Burma later this week.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday told Syria’s president to stop killing civilians.