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The city has been the subject of bitter fighting, with rebels and government forces dividing a place that was once a productive economic engine. The U.N. wants to create a "freeze" on violence there.

After the isolated nation conducted a January nuclear test and February rocket launch, the Security Council has unanimously voted for new sanctions targeting Pyongyang's weapons program.

Tesla's sales are down. It's slashing car prices and laying off staff. Yet CEO Elon Musk remains bullish on a future that's self-driving and battery-powered.

A U.N. report shows rates are rising despite efforts for more severe penalties for targeted murders of women. The majority of female homicides are committed by an intimate partner or a family member.

A United Nations report warns that greenhouse gas emissions from the world's largest economies must drop dramatically in the next decade to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change.

The international community's "road map" for peace in the Middle East calls for a secure Israel and independent Palestine living side by side. Now there's a rail map, too... as well as plans for telecommunications and other essential services. This practical vision for the region is outlined in a new report from the RAND Corporation, which says that beyond security, open borders are also essential for the success of a Palestinian state.

The Senate Armed Services Committee hears testimony from Navy Vice Adm. Albert Church, whose Pentagon report on treatment of detainees in U.S. custody did not find any senior-level responsibility for abuses.

A report by the United Nations Environmental Programme offers recommendations to stop the failure of dams holding mine waste. Will governments and industry leaders sign on?

The creator of the World Wide Web, TIM BERNERS-LEE. He created the web in 1989, as a way to organize his own projects. The Web has grown rapidly since then. In 1992 there were 100 sites on it, as of last May there were 22,000. BERNERS-LEE is dedicated to keeping the Web open as a public good. He now works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he heads the World Wide Web Consortium, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing standards, protocols and new software for the Web. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO SECOND HALF OF THE

For the sixth year in a row, more than 10,000 civilians were killed or injured in armed conflict in Afghanistan, according to the United Nations. Total casualties in the past decade topped 100,000.