Syria: Government Helicopters 'Drop Chlorine' on Aleppo

Syrian government forces have been accused of dropping barrel bombs containing chlorine from helicopters on a suburb of Aleppo, injuring 80 people. Volunteer emergency workers say people suffered breathing difficulties after an attack on the Sukari area.

Last month saw the largest number of people killed by gun violence in the US city of Chicago in twenty-three years. Over the past weekend alone 65 people were shot in the city. The BBC's Ian Pannell has spent a week in two of Chicago's most violent neighbourhoods.

A woman has got back a letter written to her as a little girl by her dying mother after it turned up in a bookshop. Bethany Gash, whose father read it to her after mother Lisa died in 2001, "never thought" she would see it again.