Islamic State militants may have used chemical weapons in an attack in Syria said Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Tuesday.

The organisation said that it had treated four civilians who suffered from breathing difficulties after a shell hit their home on Friday.

North Korea expressed regret over a landmine incident that wounded South Korean Soldiers this month.

A joint statement issued by South Korea and North Korea after a weekend of talks in response to escalating violence, added that South Korea had agreed to stop anti-north propaganda broadcasts.

The UN panel of experts into the conflict in South Sudan found that the government offensive between April and July t

The UN's International Tribunal for the Law of the Seas has called upon India to suspend all legal proceedings against Italian marines, who stand accused of killing two Indian fishermen, pending international mediation.

The tribunal also rejected Italy's request to release the marines while the final ruling was decided.

Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone face murder charges for the killing of the two men off the coast of Kerala and are on bail awaiting trial. The Italians say they thought the fishermen were pirates.

World stock markets plummeted with a sharp drop in the US dollar and major commodities, as China failed to mitigate sliding confidence in its domestic stock market on Monday.

Unesco says the destruction of Palmyra's nearly 2,000 year old Baalshamin temple is a war crime.

The UN body said the destruction of the site by Islamic State militants was "an immense loss for the Syrian people and for humanity".

"The systematic destruction of cultural symbols embodying Syrian cultural diversity reveals the true intent of such attacks, which is to deprive the Syrian people of its knowledge, its identity and history," Unesco Director-General Irina Bokova said.