New York - Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain cast aside politics on Thursday to pay their respects to the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, appearing together at the former site of the World Trade Center in New York.
Democrat Obama and Republican McCain shook hands and quietly chatted as the walked down the ramp leading to "Ground Zero," where ceremonies had taken place to mark the seventh anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
New York - The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned in the "strongest terms" the attack in Lebanon that killed Saleh Aridi, a member of the Lebanese Democratic Party.
The council urged the Beirut government to bring before justice the attackers and those who planned or financed the assassination. The attack on Wednesday injured several other people.
New York - The United States and Britain on Thursday called for more pressure on Myanmar to end its defiance of demands for democratic progress and the release of political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the United Nations Security Council should review UN mediation, which is being led by special envoy Ibrahim Gambari, and pressure the military government to yield results.
New York - "Emerging players" have created a new situation requiring the participation of all parties, in addition to governments, to resolve the world's problems, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.
Ban topped the situation in Georgia on his list, saying that his good offices will facilitate international discussion to settle the conflict between Tbilisi and Moscow.
New York - Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has bought a stake in one of the United States' oldest and most respected newspapers, The New York Times, stock exchange authorities said Thursday.
Slim - ranked by Forbes magazine in March as the world's second- richest man with an estimated wealth of 60 billion dollars behind Warren Buffett - bought a 6.4 per cent stake in The New York Times Company, which remains controlled by the Ochs-Sulzberger family.
New York - The United Nations asked the international community on Wednesday to finance massive humanitarian efforts in Haiti, where 328 people have died and
800,000 were left homeless from a series of natural disasters.
The UN humanitarian office made an appeal for 108 million dollars to cover essential relief demands in Haiti for six months.
The island nation has been battered by consecutive tropical storms and hurricanes in the past three weeks, which flooded residential areas as well as farms, destroying this year's crops, the UN said.
New York - Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain cast aside politics on Thursday to pay their respects to the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks, appearing together at the former site of the World Trade Center in New York.
New York - The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned in the "strongest terms" the attack in Lebanon that killed Saleh Aridi, a member of the Lebanese Democratic Party.
New York - The United States and Britain on Thursday called for more pressure on Myanmar to end its defiance of demands for democratic progress and the release of political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
New York - "Emerging players" have created a new situation requiring the participation of all parties, in addition to governments, to resolve the world's problems, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.
New York - Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has bought a stake in one of the United States' oldest and most respected newspapers, The New York Times, stock exchange authorities said Thursday.
New York - The United Nations asked the international community on Wednesday to finance massive humanitarian efforts in Haiti, where 328 people have died and 
