A 21-year-old teacher died while on holiday in Bali two days after drinking a local spirit which her family believe may have killed her.

Millions of Skype users were unable to use the popular internet phone call program for two days because of an abnormally high number of restarts after a routine software update, the company said today.

Most participants at a key 35-nation meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog agency have agreed to deny Iran technical aid for its plutonium producing reactor, diplomats at the gathering said today.