Barack Obama tells the Palestinian president he will veto a bid for UN membership but Mahmoud Abbas will not drop the plans, the White House says.

A 24-hour public transport strike hits Greece and a mass protest looms in Athens as anger mounts over a new raft of tough austerity measures.

Head teachers are to vote on whether to take strike action this autumn against cuts to their pensions.

Nurses are not getting enough practical, hands-on training and the NHS is becoming too reliant on untrained healthcare assistants, says a nurses' leader.

Trader Kweku Adoboli, who is accused of a £1.5bn fraud at Swiss bank UBS, is remanded in custody until 20 October by a London court.

Doctors at Moorfields Eye hospital in London have been given the go-ahead to carry out Europe's first clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells.

An extra two million flu vaccines have been ordered and an emergency "shot-pile" is being set up as health officials prepare for the flu season.

The UK has joins five other G20 countries in calling for coordinated action from the world's leading nations stimulate economic growth.