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Prince Harry reveals winning Expo design at MAXXI
Prince Harry at Polish Monte Cassino ceremony
CASSINO -Britain's Prince Harry and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk attended ceremonies Sunday to mark the 70th anniversary of the Polish victory at Monte Cassino.
Pope Francis talks immigration with ambassadors
Pope prays for Turkish miners
Graziano’s budget fiasco "paralyses FAO"
ROME –Despite the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation being five months into the new year, many units still have no idea what their budget is, FAO sources say.
17 dead, hundreds feared lost in Libya shipwreck
Syrian rebels reject Quirico kidnap claim
REYHANLI, Turkey –Following his 152-day kidnap last year, reporter Domenico Quirico blamed a rebel unit previously known for helping journalists -The Free Syrian Army-aligned Farouq Brigades has m
DETERIORATING MEDIA FREEDOM SITUATION IN UKRAINE
ROME -The OSCE has denounced the deteriorating media freedom situation in Ukraine including kidnapping and attacks on journalists and the broadcasting infrastruc
Pope Francis will visit Sri Lanka in January 2015
Milan BIT gets makeover
Security at core of G7 Energy ministers' summit
Interview: Fiat Chrysler Group lands in Finland
Bouteflika sworn in, what next in Algeria?
UN agencies "baby squillo" riddle deepens
ROME – UN food agencies strongly deny Italian media reports that staff are being investigated for exploiting under-age call girls -but judicial sources identified at least one U.N.
My personal memory of García Márquez
Berlusconi death camp gaffe irks EPP
China Christians defend their church
Some 800,000 witness pope canonisations
Comment: Our planet’s future is in the hands of 58 people
Popes sainthood climax challenges Rome
Pope's Easter appeal against hunger, war
FAO Expo revelations spawn "witch hunt"
ROME– Colleagues of Mario Lubetkin have launched a “witch hunt” to find the source of leaks about his alleged fast-track hire to head the FAO communications division, IPS sources say.
IFAD croneyism ends Kumbaya euphoria
ROME –IFAD staff held hands singing Kumbaya recently but Director General Kanayo Nwanze has ended the euphoria by hiring a new Budget Director from his native Nigeria, UN sources say.
FAO struggles to contain nepotism scandal
ROME–The FAO faces staff fury at the brazen rigging in appointing its Latin American communications officer, spurning qualified women to hire Juan Toha, nephew of Chile’s Socialist leader, FAO sour