(All times GMT - British Summer Time minus 1 hour)

1802 GMT France calls for a European Union ban on flights to Mexico in the latest response to fears of swine flu

1744 GMT Mexico raised the issue of the swine flu outbreak at the UN Security Council for the first time today, urging all countries to join together to respond to the crisis

1713 GMT Reports from New York suggest many parents have voluntarily decided to keep their children away from school

1652 GMT The WHO says the situation is moving closer to becoming a pandemic and there is no evidence the virus is slowing down

1630 GMT US officials battling against a worldwide clampdown on pork exports announce that the virus will no longer be called swine flu. “We’re calling it the 2009 H1N1 flu. That’s now the name for it,” says Richard Besser, the acting head of the Centres of Disease Control and Prevention

1606 GMT Spain has detected its first case of swine flu in someone who has not recently visited Mexico

1521 GMT Centres for Disease Control says US now has 91 confirmed cases in ten states

1515 GMT UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation says Egyptian cull is "a real mistake". "There is no reason to do that. It’s not a swine influenza, it’s a human influenza,” its chief vet says.

1509 GMT Mr Fukuda says pork does not constitute a swine flu risk.

1508 GMT Keiji Fukuda, top WHO official, says it's clear that there is human-to-human transmission of the virus, but it's too early to move the alert level to phase five.

1505 GMT A US health official says vaccine will not be ready until September at the earliest

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