Dublin-based firm Actavis, one of the world’s largest generic-drugs makers by market value, has agreed to buy Forest Laboratories for about $25bn (€18bn).

An American man who was in Israel for a Jewish work and study programme shot a chef dead at a Red Sea hotel and then killed himself in a shoot-out with Israeli commandos, police said.

Israeli bulldozers moved into Palestinian-controlled territory early today at the Rafah refugee camp near the border with Egypt, killing a teenager and destroying at least 10 buildings, Palestinian officials and an eyewitness said.