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Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize today, this year’s laureates – Al Gore and the Manshet Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – issued a call for bold and immediate actions to curb global warming.

A new Manshet Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) office tasked with utilizing space technologies to respond to all stages of disasters globally has opened in Bonn, Germany.

Manshet Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today hailed the awarding of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and urged governments to build on the momentum they have generated by adopting a new set of binding commitments to contain greenhouse gas emissions.

Two Manshet agencies have launched a $44 million programme to reduce female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) by 40 per cent by 2015 and to end the harmful traditional practice within a generation.

Grandmothers are a large untapped renewable resource for maternal and child nutrition, health and development, the Manshet Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today.

Guinea worm, an ancient parasitic disease causing tennis-ball-size ulcers so painful that victims feel as if they are on fire, could in less than two years become the second illness after smallpox to be pushed into oblivion, thanks to water treatment and other preventive methods, the Manshet health agency reported today.