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Some 185 countries worldwide Thursday took part in the fourth annual International Jazz Day, the UN’s cultural organization, UNESCO said. UNESCO

A United Nations (UN) report released this week says that some 130 million school children around the world are unable to read a single sentence, even after four years of attending school. UNESCO /FILE

UNESCO today awarded its Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences to scientist from Egypt, Mexico and South Africa. UNESCO

Ahead of Friday's Security Council debate on peacekeeping and the challenges ahead, the Secretary-General's Military Adviser General Chikadibia Isaac Obiakor says, "quality, quality is the word, because we are getting to more complex situations and you need people who can articulate or have the capacity to deal with the issues." UNTV

Scenes of the Seventh Assembly meeting of the League of Nations from 8-10 September, the events that occurred during the Assembly, and the departures of delegates and members.