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The United Nations Security Council today approved Portugal's former prime minister Antonio Guterres as the next UN secretary-general, replacing Ban Ki Moon.

The tests are traumatic and unreliable, the United Nations said in a statement this week. In Afghanistan, there's a campaign to bring the practice to a halt.

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein about rights abuses in Syria and the impact on Jordan.

With the U.N. Security Council locked in a debate over a new resolution demanding that Iraq disarm or face war, the Bush administration's mantra continues: War is the president's last choice, but Saddam Hussein has very little time left. The message was delivered again by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in an interview with NPR's Juan Williams for Morning Edition. Her remarks held out faint hope for a diplomatic solution to the crisis, if the Security Council acts.

The Committee to Protect Journalists confronted a "Kafka-esque" process — put off for years, then blocked by countries including China, which it calls the biggest jailer of journalists in the world.

NPR's Melissa Block speaks with Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J, about the reports of a whistleblower's concerns surrounding the president's conversations with the Ukrainian president.

"We believe the recent legislation eliminates the most egregious aspects of the prior law," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. Some advocates for transgender rights have criticized the decision.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts placed third among Democratic presidential candidates in the Iowa caucuses. Voters in New Hampshire turn out Tuesday for the nation's first primary.

The United Nations suspended food and relief aid to dangerous and hard-to-access areas in northeastern Nigeria, amid a catastrophic humanitarian crisis affecting half a million people.

"Enough is enough," U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon says, accepting Babacar Gaye's resignation after peacekeepers were accused of raping a girl and killing two people in the Central African Republic.