Every minute, smokers get through nearly 11 million cigarettes and 10 die from the habit, experts said, in an industry...
Miss Universe 2015 Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach on Wednesday made her debut as goodwill ambassador of the Joint United Nations...
LAST MONTH, a group of Ateneo de Manila University students had a day they would remember all their lives in...
India's U.N. ambassador says yoga poses will illuminate the side of the iconic United Nations headquarters building on the eve of International Yoga Day.
PALMAS, Brazil — Guaricema Pataxo’s indigenous roots are the cornerstone of her identity. The 53-year-old great-grandmother lives on her Pataxo...
New guidelines from the World Health Organization are enough to kill anyone's sugar high. The U.N. health agency says the world is eating too much sugar and people should slash their intake to just six to 12 teaspoons per day — an amount that could be exceeded with a single can of soda.
Rankings of the best and worst countries to grow old, according to the UN-backed Global AgeWatch Index 2013, were released on Tuesday, the first survey of its kind to collect global data on the well-being of the elderly in a rapidly aging world.
Smoking in cars raises levels of dangerous fine-particle pollutants to many times the limit recommended by the world's health agency, a study published on Monday said.
Better care has cut the number of women dying in pregnancy and childbirth by nearly half in the past two decades, but there is still a death every two minutes, according to UN figures released Wednesday.
The United Nations (UN) believes in the power of the youth to change the world and aims for the youth...
