Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that he plans to retake “the whole country”, despite a renewed effort from the international community to push for peace.
At least nine people have been killed and more than a hundred injured after two commuter trains collided near Munich.
A man has died after being found on fire outside Kensington Palace, the London home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The Syrian government carried out a policy of extermination against thousands of detainees at prisons across the country, say investigators from the UN Human Rights Council.
A large construction crane has collapsed in lower Manhattan, New York, killing at least one person and injuring two more.