Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, a senior al-Qaeda militant accused of killing Western hostages, has been killed in Mali, Chad's president says.

Measures to prevent illegal timber, which is estimated to account for 30% of the global trade, from entering the EU come into force on Sunday.

US-based online information storage firm Evernote asks all its 50 million users worldwide to reset their passwords following a security breach by hackers.

Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the Islamist militant blamed for an attack on a gas plant in Algeria in January, reports on Chad's state TV say.

A report from the Office for National Statistics shows that Britons are becoming more economical with vehicle fuel but more profligate with gas.

A Florida man disappears into a 20ft-deep (6m) sinkhole that swallowed up a bedroom in his house.

President Mwai Kibaki calls on Kenyans to vote peacefully in Monday's general election, and for losers to accept defeat.

Further big cuts in defence spending would lead to the loss of the UK's military capability, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond warns.