Prime Minister David Cameron will host an international meeting with charities and companies later, aimed at combating malnutrition in the developing world.

The authorities have been evacuating people from a village in western Hungary as a precaution against flooding along the River Danube.

GCHQ is to give a report within days to Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee on the listening agency's links to a secret US spy programme.

At least six people die in a shooting rampage in California, which ends with the gunman killed by police in a campus library, say officials.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama open two days of talks in California on a number of high-stakes issues.

A court in Peru sentences the last of the original leaders of the Shining Path rebels, Comrade Artemio, to life in prison.

The Duke of Edinburgh has spent a second night in hospital, where he was said to be "progressing satisfactorily" after exploratory abdominal surgery.

Former President Nelson Mandela is in a "serious but stable condition" in hospital with a lung infection, the South African authorities say.