As global leaders gather in New York for the General Assembly the current wave of global crises has also raised questions about the UN's ability to deal with them all.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has told the BBC that IS militants will not be defeated until they are fought on the ground.

Worldwide demonstrations ahead of a UN meeting in New York on how to reduce global carbon emissions attract hundreds of thousands of people, organisers say.

Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Basindwa resigns amid reports that rebels have taken control of the government headquarters.

Turkish security forces have fired water cannon and tear gas at crowds which had gathered in support of Syrian Kurdish refugees on the border.

Memorials are held in Kenya to commemorate the anniversary of the attack on a shopping centre by Al-Shabab.

Kenya is marking a year since the attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre, in which at least 67 people were killed.

Firefighters are trying to contain a fire that has engulfed a residential building in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk, according to Russian media.

A bomb explosion near the Egyptian foreign ministry in Cairo has killed at least two police officers, security officials say.

A SpaceX cargo ship rocketed toward the International Space Station on Sunday, carrying the first 3D printer for astronauts in orbit.

The southern Indian state of Kerala has said it will ban the sale and consumption of alcohol to tackle the problem of excessive drinking.

Two high-profile imams in the UK make a direct appeal to the Islamic State militant group to free British hostage Alan Henning.

Argentina's president discusses global finance with the Pope in private talks at the Vatican prior to a UN meeting about spiralling national debt.

Yemen has agreed to a UN-brokered truce with a Shia Houthi group after a week of mounting clashes in the capital Sanaa raised fears of a sectarian war.

Peru's largest prison has a bank run entirely by inmates, for inmates so they can save for their release and re-establish trustworthiness.

Ukraine's government and pro-Russia rebels have agreed a memorandum on a peace plan for the eastern conflict.

Aziza Brahim, a singer from the disputed territory of Western Sahara, uses haunting melodies to draw attention to the plight of her people.

New Zealand's governing party has won the country's general election by an emphatic margin.

Since parts of the border were opened 66,000 people have crossed from Syria into Turkey in just 24 hours, a Turkish government official tells the BBC.

Dozens of hostages seized by Islamic State (IS) from the Turkish consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have been freed and are back in Turkey.