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Prime minister Ahmet Davutolgu was in the capital Ankara as reports of the attack emerged and did not interrupt a speech being broadcast on live television.

“The recent acts of violence will not be tolerated in a community that has worked so tirelessly over the last year to rebuild and become stronger”, St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger said in a statement.

The state of emergency will continue for at least one more night, despite a state of relative calm on the streets of Ferguson.

The UN statement was approved one day after Assad regime warplanes struck a rebel-held town near Damascus, killing at least 96 people.

The video depicts a young man in a white T-shirt pulling a weapon after the crowd he is in runs for cover.

A new Islamic State video is taking aim at Turkey, issuing a call to arms to “conquer Istanbul”.

The European Stability Mechanism will release the first tranche of funds to enable Athens to meet a €3.2bn bond repayment due to the European Central Bank on Thursday.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was on Tuesday set to formally acknowledge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he can not form a coalition government, paving the way for new elections just months after the June polls.

By early Monday evening, hundreds of people had gathered again along West Florissant, the thoroughfare that was the site of massive protests and rioting after Brown was fatally shot last year in a confrontation with a Ferguson police officer. More than 20 people were arrested.

At least 21 firefighters are among the dead, state media reported.

“Only the “national team”… would be able to turn the tide like this”, said Yingda Securities analyst Li Daxiao, referring to entities acting for the government.

A significant minority of Merkel’s conservatives may vote against the €86bn bailout, sending the government a warning that the latest package is its last chance to keep debt-ridden Greece in the 19-country euro zone.

Warplanes pounded 17 targets in the province of Hakkari on Monday and Tuesday, the military said, part of a renewed crackdown on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which has waged a three-decade insurgency for Kurdish autonomy.

Apple (Swiss: AAPL.SW – news), for whom China is a key market, fell 0.5 percent to 116.60 and was the biggest drag on the Nasdaq and the S&P 500.

“A name like Wal-Mart today is part of what keeps the market kind of range bound, there are just too many companies with global businesses that are not really firing on all cylinders and then you throw in moves in China”.