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HSBC is shedding 25,000 jobs worldwide. We hear about the global impact, as the banking giant looks to offload its Brazil and Turkey operations.

It's been revealed live samples of deadly anthrax were sent to a British lab by the Pentagon in the US. An infectious diseases expert explains the potential risk - and talks us through the political fallout, Stateside.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is on a four-day visit to New York and Washington. The Scottish First Minister even appeared on the Jon Stewart talk show. Hear how that went and what she's hoping to achieve.

Proposals to ban E-cigarettes in enclosed public spaces in Wales are dividing opinion. A ban was introduced in New York last year - a public health expert and a vaping advocate debate the pros and cons of 'vaping'.

A man who spent 43 years in solitary confinement could be released from jail. Albert Woodfox was imprisoned for armed robbery, and later blamed for the death of a prison guard. He was tried twice, but the convictions were overturned. He's always denied the charges.

A young woman in Belgium has become the first in the world to give birth to a healthy baby using ovarian tissue removed when she was a child.

And Mark Riley has all the news from the Big Apple in the New York Hour.