A new chief for the UN

SOUTH KOREA'S foreign minister, Ban Ki-Moon, will confront a daunting challenge when he succeeds Kofi Annan as United Nations secretary general on Jan. 1, largely because of what Annan did and failed to do in the role of the UN's chief administrator. (Full article: 446 words)

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