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Mark Malloch Brown heads the United Nations Development Program. He'll discuss their efforts in Afghanistan, the West Bank and Gaza to help with reconstruction. Brown is also the chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee of the heads of all U.N. development funds, programs and departments.

Robert Siegel talks with Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies about the security situation in Iraq. Cordesman says U.S. and U.N. resources currently in Iraq can't possibly protect all of their buildings and people.

Historian Thant Myint-U is a former U.N. official and a native of Burma. His new book, The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma — part memoir, part history — explores the problems plaguing the country.

American military personnel helped rescue some Americans and others in Mali after the hotel where they were staying was overrun by gunmen.

A senior U.N. official points to the Syrian government for the tens of thousands of disappearances during the long civil war there. But the government's looking like it's winning the war.

Children are more than half of the nearly 580,000 people who have become homeless in the last four months, the U.N.'s children agency said.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is directly sanctioned for the first time for his role in human rights abuses.

The United States should do more to find a peaceful solution to the weapons standoff with Iraq, former President Jimmy Carter says. But, in a Morning Edition interview with NPR's Bob Edwards, Carter says that if Iraq fails to comply with U.N. resolutions, "war would be inevitable."

With the recent attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, it's clear that U.S.-led forces in Iraq face a "growing threat" of terrorism, the chief U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq says. Paul Bremer says it will take two years to train an Iraqi police force, and postwar reconstruction will cost billions more. NPR's Juan Williams speaks with Bremer on Tuesday's Morning Edition.

Manuel llegó a los EE. UU. de manera ilegal hace dos décadas. Se encuentra entre las 143.470 personas arrestadas en el interior del país el año pasado. Durante seis meses, Manuel estuvo en suspenso.