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BBC News with Stewart Macintosh.

The Spanish cabinet has unv eiled new spending cuts which it hopes will reduce the b udget deficit by a total of 50 billion dollars, but at the same time officials said pensions will rise using money drawn from reserves. Tom Burridge reports from Madrid.

The Spanish government says the economy here is expected to remain in recession throughout next year, and it predicts unemployment will keep rising. It's in that context that three senior government ministers announced Spain's budget for next year. It includes a cut to government department budgets of 12% and a freeze on public sector¡¯s salaries for a third consecutive year. The Spanish finance minister said this budget would make Spain's debt more sustainable. But the figures and the reforms published today made the chances of a second Spanish bai lout all the more likely.

Burma¡¯s reformist President Thein Sein has praised the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a speech at the United Nations. In front of the U.N. General Assembly he referred to Aung San Suu Kyi for the first time as a Nobel laureate, and congratulated he r on the honours she recently received in the United States. She was detained for 15 years by the previous military government. Barbara Plett has more from New York.

The president told the U.N. that Burma had left behind its system of authoritarian government, but he said the democratic transformation would be a complex and delicate task that requires patience. He paid tribute t o the longtime dissident Aung San Suu Kyi for her efforts to promote democracy. And he said the government placed high priority on ending arme d conflicts with its ethnic minorities through peace talks and confidence-building measures.

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of following a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, Mr. Abbas said Israel was demolishing Palestinians' homes in the occupied territories and preventing construction of new ones while continuing to build and expand Jewish settlements on Palestinian land.

Also at the U.N. the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu has told the General Assembly that what it called the Iranian nuclear threat puts the future of the world at stake. Mr. Netanyahu said a red line must be drawn.

Scientists in the U.S. say they've developed a new kind of electronics which can dissolve naturally. They believe it could have a major impact on medicine. Our science correspondent Malcolm Grary reports.

The conventional approach to developing electronics is to build devices that last as long as possible. This new method seeks to produce circuitry made from silicon