BBC News with Marion Marshall.
The United States says it has carried out ten more air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq.The Pentagon said remotely piloted aircraft and fight jets backed by those from Saudi Arabia Jordan and United Arab Emirates hit seven targets in Syria and three in Iraq.Forward has been to besiege Syrian town of Kobane near the Turkish border.
Warplanes circled over Kobane throughout the night into the morning and in the early hours, a series of explosions were heard but Pentagon later confirmed that these were US air strikes hitting an Islamic State building and two armed vehicles.The air strikes did not stop the skirmishing around the Kobane that also decide the town's fate as we left the area we watched the shells fire from Islamic State positions landed in the town, a number of people were killed and injured we were told later.
The Syrian al-Qaeda linked group al-Nusra Front denounced the air strikes as a war against Islam and threatened to retaliate against the western and Arab countries involved.A spokesman for the Free Syrian Army has said his organization supports the air strikes against the Islamic State militants in Syria but opposes any action that caused civilian casualties.Hussam al-Marie told the BBC that western countries should carry out air strikes against the government in Damascus too.
So called Islamic State is our enemy as much as Assad regime is our enemy.We want Syria free from dictatorship and from terrorism.We can not accept terrorists to establish their states on our lands.We need the support from the free world to continue this battle against the regime and ISIS at the same time,we are fighting in two fronts.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he wants to hold peace talks with Pakistan but without what he called a shadow of terrorism.Mr.Modi was making his first speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
With Pakistan I want to hold bilateral talks to improve friendship and cooperation in all seriousness and in the net mostly of peace without the shadow of terrorism.I do want to hold bilateral talks with them but it is also the duty of Pakistan to come forward in clear and appropriate atmosphere.
Mr.Modi's comments came a day after Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif criticized India of cancelling planned bilateral talks last month.
The Cuban government has said it will take disciplinary action against employees of a state pharmaceutical company.The created perfumes named after the revolutionary leader Che Guevara and the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.In a note published to the official granma newspaper the Cuban authorities discribed the project as a serious error and said the symbols of the revolution would always be sacred.
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Three Frenchmen arrested in Turkey after leaving Syria have been placed under formally investigation by the French authorities for allegedly planning terrorist attacks.Their lawyer says they denied the accusations.The men handed themselves into the police after they were sent by the Turkish authorities to the wrong airport and were able to leave the airport unchallenged.
An al-Qaeda affiliated groups says it carried out a rocket attack on the American embassy in the Yemeni capital Sana injuring at least two guards.Ansar al-Sharia said the attack was in retaliation for a US drone strike on Friday in the north of the country which they say wounded several children.
The army in Japan has joined the search for dozens of hikers were thought to be trapped near the summit of volcano after it suddenly erupted, more than 30 people are injured some seriously.A report of one person died was later retracted.Mount Ontake continues to throw rock and great clouds of ash into the air more than 200 were initially stranded on the volcano.
George Clooney's agent says the Hollywood star has married the human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in a private ceremony in the Italian city of Venice.Clooney's celebrity friends joined the couple for the ceremony as NE reports.
Some of the guests who arrived for the wedding included fellow Hollywood stars Matt Damon and Bill Murray as well as the singer Bono and super model Cindy Crawford.The 53 year old / engaged to Amal Alamuddin in April the 36 year old is a London based human rights lawyer and her wedding was also celebrated in her family's home village in Lebanon.The couple exchanged vows at the Aman hotel this evening ended the short statements the actor has publicised confirmed he is now married.There will be second ceremony on Monday at the 16 K palace.