Reuters - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad railed against "Zionist murderers" in a speech to the United Nations on Tuesday and vowed to resist American bullying and defend Iran's right to nuclear power.

AFP - World leaders demanded urgent steps to contain the global financial crisis and a sweeping reform of multilateral institutions, including the Security Council, during the UN General Assembly's annual debate.

AP - Afghanistan's president, who addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, is urging the next American leader to send money, planes and equipment to strengthen the Afghan army.

Reuters - President George W. Bush delivers his final address to the United Nations on Tuesday facing a starkly different world from the one that heard his first -- prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a financial crisis sweeping the globe.

Reuters - The global financial crisis endangers efforts to reduce world poverty and demands a new approach with less "uncritical faith in the 'magic' of markets," U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Israeli President Shimon Peres cast strong doubt on Tuesday over whether Israel and the Palestinians could reach a peace deal by the end of the year as hoped.

AP - Iran's president blamed U.S. military interventions around the world in part for the collapse of global financial markets ahead of his speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly.

AFP - Georgia on Tuesday claimed to have shot down a Russian drone near one of its rebel regions and a key oil pipeline, as US President George W. Bush underlined support for Georgia at the United Nations.

AP - President Bush, who once warned that the United Nations was endanger of becoming irrelevant, said Tuesday that multinational organizations are now "needed more urgently than ever" to combat terrorists and extremists who are threatening world order.

AFP - World leaders called for urgent steps to tackle the global financial crisis and said the time had come for a sweeping reform of multilateral institutions, including the UN Security Council.

Reuters - President George W. Bush and other world leaders scrambled on Tuesday to contain the fallout from a financial crisis engulfing Wall Street and sending shock waves across the globe.

AFP - Six years after bluntly warning the United Nations it risked irrelevance for not backing the Iraq war, US President George W. Bush on Tuesday hailed the world body's "extraordinary potential."