The number of adults with diabetes in the world has more than doubled since 1980 with serious consequences for health budgets, researchers say.

Protesters from cities across Spain begin marches towards the capital, Madrid, as part of a demonstration against austerity measures.

Hu Jia - one of China's most prominent dissidents - has been released from prison and reunited with his family, his wife says.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives in the UK for a trade summit, and will begin his visit with a trip to the Longbridge car plant.

An Israeli couple have been given suspended prison sentences in Poland for the theft of artefacts from the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, officials say.

A bomb explodes in Gaza City, tearing a big hole in the wall of a UN building in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.

China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao talks up the euro ahead of a three-day business summit in Britain.

A hacker group that has attacked several high-profile websites over the last two months announces that it is disbanding.