Authorities have culled more than 370,000 birds in eastern China, as the virus resurfaces in Asia and the Middle East.

US bank Citigroup announces plans for about 52,000 new job cuts, on top of 23,000 cuts already made this year.

The Scottish government has prepared a contingency plan to cull salmon stocks should they become infected with a parasite which has already decimated salmon in some of Norway's fresh waters.

Nelson Mandela's former jail, Robben Island, is to be closed for two weeks to cull rabbits which have overrun the South African tourist attraction.

Hundreds of rabbits are culled as crofters say the animals are affecting crops.

A ban on the feeding of deer in winter and an increase in the numbers culled is proposed to revive forests.

The RSPCA voices disappointment after the legality of new rules allowing chickens to be killed by slow suffocation is upheld.

The health minister in Wales is criticised for centralising power as she gives more details of a cull of health bodies.

There are claims growing numbers of badgers are being killed illegally as farmers await the start of a cull to tackle bovine TB.

A £27m plan to tackle bovine TB in cattle is announced but it does not include any badger cull yet.

Animal campaigners are to hold a series of protests to force a U-turn on a planned badger cull.

A man says he is stuck inside his house because the kerbs on the estate are too high to get his wheelchair over.

Loud, dirty and destructive, urban gulls would never win prizes for popularity. But now numbers are getting "out of hand" says one expert and many gulls are choosing to sit out the mild British winter rather than head for warmer climes.

Farmers are having to shoot thousands of new-born bull calves after a boycott of UK veal exports by Dutch producers.

A rapid response service will be set up to help trap and kill grey squirrels across southern Scotland.

On a visit to the Royal Welsh Show, Conservative leader David Cameron gives his support to a badger cull in Wales.

The decision not to cull badgers in England to control tuberculosis in cattle is flawed in the short-term, say MPs.

A group of Assembly Members - four of them Labour - join nine MPs in opposing plans to cull badgers in Wales.

A team of officers is being put together to trap and cull grey squirrels in the south of Scotland.

Nine MPs - eight of them Welsh Labour - urge a halt plans to cull badgers in Wales to tackle bovine TB.