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The United Nations Security Council is about to receive a report on Iran's nuclear program. The watchdog agency is expected to report that Iran has defied a U.N. order to stop enriching uranium.

"This month, we will reach the deepest deficit of the decade," the Secretary-General warned. If countries don't pay soon, the U.N. will struggle to pay staff and hold meetings, and will limit travel.

The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Saturday to boost humanitarian aid access in Syria. More than 9 million people need food, water and medicine, according to the U.N.

Highly interactive sites cater to a growing number of life-hackers who want to do everything from modify cell phones to make their own furniture.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jean Lee, the former Pyongyang bureau chief for the Associated Press, and Georgetown University's Angela Stent, about the upcoming meeting between Kim Jong Un and Putin.

World leaders at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species agreed to ban all commercial trade in pangolins, small and endangered mammals that also resemble aardvarks.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Daphne Keller, Platform Regulation Director at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center, about how social media companies should handle free speech.

“A Third World War — which so many had feared — has been avoided,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. “This is a major achievement of which member states can be proud — and which we must all strive to preserve.”

This week the Vatican faced a U.N. panel investigating priest sex abuse. The panel called for an end to what it called a Vatican "climate of impunity."

Thursday marks 30 years since computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee submitted his formal proposal for a new idea: the World Wide Web. At the time, he was working at the CERN laboratory in Geneva.