Twin blasts at a snooker hall in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta kill 81 people, police say, after 11 died in an earlier market bombing.

The US and Afghanistan have reached the "last chapter" in an effort to make Afghanistan secure and sovereign, the US defence secretary says.

Credit card provider American Express announces plans to cut 5,400 jobs from its total workforce of 63,500 by the end of 2013.

Broadcaster Andrew Marr is conscious and "continuing to progress" as he recovers in hospital after a stroke, the BBC has said.