Gordon Brown has used his first speech to the UN as prime minister to warn the world that it is a "million miles" from meeting its promises to relieve poverty, HIV and illiteracy in poor countries.

Mr Brown told an audience of world leaders, businessmen and diplomats that, at the current rate, some of the UN's touchstone Millennium Development Goals - due to be fulfilled by 2015 - were a century away from being honoured.

See the report from today's Guardian