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The violence includes "some of the most awful crimes we have ever seen," including beheadings and cutting children's throats, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein tells NPR.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warning that the world is "on a highway to climate hell" and urged the two biggest polluting countries, China and the United States, to work together to avert it.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposes major changes to the world body. The reforms would expand the Security Council and keep countries that violate human rights off the Human Rights Commission.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report that gangs in Haiti could overrun the capital, leading to a complete breakdown of government, without additional international support.

U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says he supports a prominent Shiite cleric's calls for direct elections for an interim authority in Iraq. The cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, wants elections before the transfer of power the U.S. wants to occur on July 1. U.N. officials say elections by that date are unlikely, though they could occur late this year or early next year. Hear NPR's Deborah Amos.

Also: A Trump Administration travel ban gets a hearing in an appellate court today; a wildfire spreads in southeast Georgia; and the New York Yankees need 18 innings to defeat the Chicago Cubs, 5-4.

Also: Another North Korean missile test has failed; a House panel approves a measure requiring women to register for the military draft; and SpaceX aims to launch a Dragon capsule to Mars by 2018.

Also: Scientists worry the Zika virus could spread at the Brazil Olympic games; the FBI releases video of the shooting of an Oregon militant; and guitarist Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane dies.

Also: President Obama promises maritime aid to Asian Pacific allies; Guinea's last Ebola patient is released from the hospital; and blizzards and flooding threaten parts of the U.S. today.

Also: The suspect in the Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting will appear in court today; a huge winter storm will pummel the central U.S.; and it's Cyber Monday - a huge online shopping day.