A memorial to the victims of the Armenian genocide was unveiled in Los Angeles on Saturday at Grand Park. 

The monument marks the genocide which took place between 1915 and 1918 when over 1.2 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman empire. 

The monument, which comprises of two parts, is made from volcanic rock in Armenia's Ararat Valley. 

New York remains on high alert today as a series of "intentional" explosions and suscipious devices were found over the weekend. 

Five men have been detained for questioning in relation to the incidents.  

The blast in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, which injured 29 people, is believed to have been from a shrapnel-filled pressure cooker. 

On Sunday a pipe bomb exploded in New Jersey along the route of a charity run. 

An inquiry by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has found the Syrian military was responsible for carrying out chemical attacks on civilians, Reuters reported.

"It was the 22nd Division, the 63rd Brigade and the 255 and 253 squadrons of the Syrian government," a Western diplomat reportedly told the news agency. 

Fighting appeared to have stopped temporary as the ceasefire in Syria held for one day, with only minor violations reported. 

No civilian deaths were reported for 15 hours of the ceasefire, the UK based group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. 

UN aid convoys however were kept on standby however, until a more definitive truce could be assured. 

The US Department of Justice and Department of the Interior ordered a temporary halt on construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline on Friday afternoon, just hours after a federal judge had rejected attempts to end the project.

US federal judge, James E. Boasberg, had initially ruled against the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s request for an injunction against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

In dozens of prisons across the United States, inmates are going on strike as they launched a protest calling for a reform of the American prison system. 

North Korea on Friday conducted its 5th and largest nuclear test yet, causing seismic waves measuring 5.0. 

The country said the test had been of a "nuclear warhead that has been standardised to be able to be mounted on strategic ballistic rockets". 

China's foreign minister on Friday reiterated that it was firmly opposed to North Korea' nuclear tests, Reuters reported.  

A Nepalese Colonel Kumar Lama was this week acquitted of charges of ordering the torture of a Nepalese civilian by the Central Criminal Court in London. 

Israeli and Palestinian leaders have agreed "in principle" to resume peace talks in Moscow, the Russian foreign minister spokesperson, Maria Zakharova was reported by the Associated Press as saying on Thursday. 

No date has been set for the agreed meeting. “The most important thing is to pick the right timing,” Ms Zakharova said, adding "intensive contacts on this are ongoing." 

Hundreds of Buddhists in Myanmar protested on Tuesday against the arrival of the former UN chief, Kofi Annan who arrived on a visit to investigate the ethnic violence targetting Rohingya Muslims in the state of Rakhine. 

Standing at the airport as Mr Annan arrived, Buddhist protesters which included many Buddhist monks, carried placards reading "no to foreigners' biased intervention in our Rakhine State's affairs". Many booed and shouted "no Kofi-led investigation". 

The US Secretary of Defense and Britain’s Secretary of State for Defence said their governments would work towards stamping out sexual abuse in United Nations peacekeepers as world leaders meet in London today to discuss peacekeeping efforts.

“Despite their achievements, there are many well-documented incidents of peacekeepers failing to live up to the standards expected of them,” wrote the two secretaries in The Times. 

The Syrian government headed by President Assad has been accused of carrying out a chlorine gas attack in the city of Aleppo on Tuesday. 

Monitors on the ground and rescue workers state government helicopter dropped barrel bombs filled with chlorine over the city, injuring over 80 people, including many children. 

A UN inquiry last month concluded the government had twice used chlorine gas previously. 

The United States president Barack Obama called on Tuesday for sanctions against North Korea to be fully implemented  after the country fired missiles into the sea to coincide with the G20 summit, reportS Reuters 

Describing North Korea as a threat, Mr Obama said the US has "unwavering" support for its allies, and would not be taking an offensive approach with the country. 

South Sudan's Transitional Government of National Unity has agreed to the deployment of a 4,000 person regional protection force mandated by the UN Security Council and expressed its willingness to implement a hybrid court to try war crimes.