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. 

“The rough part resembles after the genocide when the Armenian people struggled and tried to survive,” the architect Vahagn Thomasian told LA Times, adding that the smooth half “represents the present, future, new generations.”

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. 

Another suspicious device was found near a train station in Elizabeth in New Jersey on Monday morning. The device exploded as it was being disarmed. 

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. 

Responding to the finding, a source within the Syrian military was quoted by Reuters as saying, "the Syrian state ... and we, the Syrian Arab army, have said more than once that the army has not and will not use any banned weapon, especially chemical or poison weapons."

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 ceasefire follows an agreement between Russia and the USA on Friday in Genenva after several months of negotiations. 

If the ceasefire is maintained for seven days US and Russian jets will conduct air strikes on Islamic State and associated groups. 

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. 

The strikes were launched on September 9th 2016, marking 45 years since the Attica prison uprising – a poignant yet historic event in the fight against black racism in the United States. Inmates protested against poor prison conditions, while also bringing to the forefront issues of racism that plague the justice system. Today a similar movement was launched.

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.  

Japan prime minister condemned the test, stating, "North Korea's nuclear development is becoming a graver threat to Japan's safety and severely undermines the peace and safety of the region and the international community."

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. 

Mr Lama was arrested in 2013 while in the UK on leave from his posting as a UN peacekeeper in South Sudan and charged under s. 134(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 in the UK. This section permits the prosecution in the UK to bring charges against any "public official or person in an official capacity" of any nationality, who commits the offence of torture anywhere in the world, during the course of performing his or her official duties. 

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." 

The last public meeting between the two leaders, Mr Netanyahu and Mr Abbas was in 2010. 

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".