UNITED NATIONS: Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent battling extreme poverty and disease since 2000 and now the United Nations (UN) is lining up a new war on the social distress still suffered by huge numbers around the world.

Ideas on targets to follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how to pay will be in a report to be handed over by Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday to UN leader Ban Ki-moon.

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