NEW YORK — In a cramped office on the 19th floor of Two United Nations, Danan Gu, a nerdy population analyst, found 7 million children in China who didn’t officially exist. They materialized in front of him, on a desktop computer. Gu pulled up a chart from China’s 2000 census, showing children age 1 and under. Then he clicked on a Ministry of Education report that recorded students in the same age group about 10 years later. Read full article > >

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U.N. analysts deploy many tools to project world’s population

The U.S. recession will shatter the record for longest streak of high unemployment, a report expected Friday will show. November is expected to be the 19th consecutive month the unemployment rate has remained above 9 percent, breaking the streak set…

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Unemployment Streak to Beat Record

Australia got its first saint Sunday when the pope canonized Mother Mary MacKillop, who in the 19th century exposed sexual abuse and was punished for her whistleblowing. As tens of thousands watched in a St. Peter’s Square ceremony, Pope Benedict XVI…

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Australia Gets Its First Saint

A group of intellectuals and politicians calls on France to repay 17bn euros (£14bn) “extorted” from Haiti in the 19th Century.

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France urged to repay Haiti debt