Decorations that are awarded or approved by foreign heads of state, the United Nations or NATO.

Those putting pressure on Roche, a Swiss company, include the head of the United Nations and health officials in some nations.

The head of the United Nations "oil for food" program in Iraq has done some unusual accounting.

In either case, will he allow a real contest, perhaps against Mohammed ElBaradei, the former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog?

Salem Ajluni, head of the United Nations monitoring unit, now puts it at roughly $1,300.

Mr. Annan has taken institutional and personal blame for that catastrophe, which occurred while he was the head of the United Nations peacekeeping office.

The head of the United Nations monitors, General Babacar Gaye said that violence was increasing across Syria.

Insults and obscenities are hurled across the sandbags and the buffer zone, right over the heads of the United Nations peacekeeping force.

Ingvar Carlsson is head of the United Nations independent Rwanda-commission.

The battle has echoes of the administration's move in 1996 to oust the head of the United Nations and replace him with Kofi Annan.