Eating more insects could help fight world hunger, according to a new UN report.

Syria has denied being responsible for two car bombs which killed 46 people in a Turkish border town.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would have no role in a political settlement to Syria's conflict.

Seven soldiers serving with Nato's force in Afghanistan have been killed in two attacks, the alliance says.

Until a decade ago, no one knew if Heracleion, believed to be an ancient harbor city, was fiction or real. Now, reports the Telegraph, the researchers who found it—150 feet beneath the surfa [ … ]

The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution to create a UN peacekeeping force for Mali.

The UN special rapporteur on torture has expressed his "deep disappointment" over Bahrain's decision to indefinitely postpone his visit to the county.

Eleven children have been killed in a Nato air strike in eastern Afghanistan, officials and witnesses say.

The UN General Assembly is due to vote on what would be the first treaty to regulate the $70bn (£46bn) global trade in conventional arms.

An agreement has been reached between Nato and the Afghan government on the withdrawal of US special forces from Wardak province, alliance officials have announced.