Yahoo! News - U.N. assembly approves second term for U.N. chief Ban
Yahoo! News reports: "The 192-nation U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously approved a second five-year term for U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, who analysts and diplomats see as a solid ally of Washington. The former South Korean foreign minister, who took over as U.N. secretary-general from his predecessor Kofi Annan in 2007, was re-elected to the world body's top job by acclamation, effective next January 1 [...] All the regional groups of U.N. member states backed Ban, including the Latin American and Caribbean group, the last to officially endorse his re-election."

Comment: Nice to see him re-elected, he is the kind of SecGen that the world needs: low-key, cooperative, conciliatory, administrative. We don't have to worry about a world government power-grab with him at the helm.