There is 1 unread message in header section .But not in the body part .
That's right. You must reload the whole page to change those.
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yeah seen this too...
bummer
Sorry didn't see that topic
Same on Windows. Also, I just want to make the point that the Unread total used to clear when you had read the unread posts. Without having to reload the page. That was more convenient and less confusing than it is now.
yes It's really annoying.
I don't know how a self respecting engineer can sleep at night when the UI shows such discrepancy
what happened to worrying about the details and search for perfection...
I agree with @J-M-L and IMHO reloading the whole page isn't really a solution, it's just kinda workaround. The "NEW" count is automatically updated as soon as I read one (well, not immediately, I suppose there's some kinda ajax background call), while the "UNREAD" count only updates if I refresh the page.
I now try listing the general steps to reproduce this issue:
let's say the top bar says I have "NEW (5)" and "UNREAD (1)", then I click the "UNREAD" top link and the list of unread topics comes out, in this case just one, and that's fine; so I click and read it: the top bar is stuck to "UNREAD (1)" while the "NEW" decreases to "NEW (4)", and the "UNREAD" won't ever update! I need to explicitly refresh the page using F5.
IMO it looks like that counter isn't updated in the same way "NEW" count is, and that's unreasonable and a bit annoying. 
Programmers just ned to link the "unread" count update to the same ajax code (or whatever it is) used to update "new" count, and use it to update the top bar accordingly.
If you're patient, it will clear automatically; it just takes a little more time than the body.
And I hardly notice the header, I basically concentrate on the body.
I understand, but after I read this very reply, I've been more than a minute here, still with the "UNREAD" top flag:
But you're right, that count has been updated after I changed to another main page ("Programming" in my case) then after a few seconds I changed back to another (main) page, and the top unread link disappeared.
But it's kinda out of logic, if the New count almost immediately updates when I read a topic, I don't think it's a hard thing to do updating also the Unread counts in the same ajax function...
PS: I'm sorry but it's perhaps my professional deformation as I'm an IT analyst, and if a programmer does things like that, I'd call him asking to do more coherent things..