Hewlett-Packard said it plans to cut between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs.

Israel's PM vows to "use all necessary means" to stop stone throwers after an Israeli man dies in a car crash linked to an attack.

A 14-year-old boy in Texas has been arrested after a homemade clock he wanted to show his school teachers was mistaken for a bomb.

The Ecuadorean capital, Quito, is swathed in smoke as forest fires burn in the hills surrounding the city.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad tells Russian TV that he will not leave under foreign pressure and says Iran is "at Syria's side".

A large-scale de-worming treatment programme is needed to rid some 1.5 billion people of these harmful and unpleasant parasites, say researchers.

Hungarian riot police fire tear gas and water cannon to force back migrants, some of whom were throwing missiles, at the now closed Serbia-Hungary border.

Nearly 700 million cases of malaria have been prevented in Africa as a result of concerted efforts to tackle the disease since 2000, say researchers.