The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.

In his first U.N. appearance, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi slams the Security Council and chastised the world body on Wednesday for failing to intervene or prevent some 65 wars.

Switzerland should be wiped off the map and its land divided between France, Italy and Germany. That is what Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi is calling for in a motion he filed to the United Nations, according to newspaper reports.

An exiled Uighur activist blamed by China for deadly ethnic riots demands that Beijing allow an international investigation into the disappearances of about 10,000 Uighur protesters.

With joblessness rising, President Barack Obama said Thursday he was "deeply concerned" about unemployment and conceded that too many families are worried about "whether they will be next" to suffer economically.

An Islamic court in Somalia cut off a hand and foot from each of four men convicted of stealing phones and guns.