The U.S. and other donor nations "significantly upped their pledges" of aid for the flooding in Pakistan during a U.N. General Assembly meeting on Thursday, in which the U.N. "appeared to [meet] its target of $460 million in firsthand aid for flood-stricken Pakistan," the customer's broker Press reports. "The rush of land of plenty help came after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ... urged governments and people to be even more unstinting than they were in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and this year's Haiti seism because the floods were a bigger 'global disaster,'" the news service writes...

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