The United Nation has released satellite photos which it says show the Temple of Bel in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra has been destroyed by Islamic State militants who control the site. Nick Bran reports from New York. The blurry satellite image released by the United Nations makes depressing viewing for it shows that almost nothing remains of the main structure at the center of the temple. Earlier on, Syrian antiquities chief said the basic structure of the 2000-year-old site was still intact despite attacks by the group calling itself Islamic State demolished with explosives. But the statement for the UN's training and research agency UNITAR confirmed that the destruction of the main building as well as a row of columns in its immediate vicinity. This destruction will be widely viewed as a grieve act to cultural barbarity.
Two journalists facing jail sentences for leaking the Thai navy to human trafficking have been acquitted of defamation. In 2013, Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian reported that naval officers were involved in trafficking where Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar. From Phuket, here is Jonathan Head. In a brief summing up of the case, the judge found that the article published by Phuketwan website was properly researched and it didn't damage Thailand's national security. The Thai navy brought the case in December in 2013 arguing that 41 word paragraphs which refer to the involvement of Thai naval forces in human trafficking damaged the navy's reputation. Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian started the website to cover tourists in Phuket but they were the first journalists to report on the plight of Roingya Muslims washing up on Thailand's Andaman coast, and on the harsh treatment they received from human trafficers and from some Thai officials.
Thousands of Hilary Clintons's emails have been released as part of the investigation into her use of private computer server while as Secretary of State. The state department says 150 emails have to be censored because they contained information considered to be classified. The probe could damage Mrs Clinton's bid to the Democratic candidate for the presidency next year. Peter Bulls has more. This is only 25 percent of the total of emails that will eventually be released the FBI is investigating. I spent much of the last hour looking at some those emails on the state department website and the vast majority that I've seen so far are relatively mundane.
A jury in the United States has convicted a 74-year-old man of shooting dead three people outside two jewish centers in a suburb of Kansas city. During his trial, Frazier Glenn Cross said he carried out the killings last year because he believed Jews were too powerful and were destroying white race. None of the three victims were actually jewish. World news from the BBC.
Several people are reported to have been wounded in a gunbattle between Israili troops and Palestinian militants in the West Bank. Palistinian officials said heavy gunfire broke out when Israeli soldiers surrounded the house in Jenin to arrest Islamic militants.
Thousands of people have taken to the street of the Austrian capital Vienna to demonstrate against the ill treatment of refugees. They held out banners reading Refugees Welcome and I don't want Europe to be a mass grave. Last week, the body of 71 migrants were found in an abandoned lorry on an Austrian motorway.
President Obama has warned that the world must reach an agreement to curb the effects of global warming while they still can. He told at a meeting of foreign ministers from Arctic nations in Alaska that climate change would, in his words, define the contours of the century more than any other challenge. He said none of the countires represented at the meeting was moving fast enough to meet the challenge at the moment. Mr Obama said it would ensure world leaders could not afford to not work. "Climate change is no longer some far off problem. It is happening here. It is happening now. Climate change is already destructing our agriculture and ecosystems, our water and food supplies, our energy, our infrastructure, human health, human safety now, today."
Scientists believe about 90 percent of the world seabirds are likely to have some plastic in their stomaches. In a report, the reseachers say they reached their conclusion after analyzing studies conducted over a half century.
The government of New Zeland has announced a shortlist of four designs for a new national flag. Three of the schemes incorporate the silver fern motif which is used by New Zeland sports teams. The four options will be put to a referendum later this year. That's the latest world news from the BBC.