Washington (AFP) Jan 31, 2012 - British oil giant BP must cover some of the eventual claims against subcontractor Halliburton arising from the devastating 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a US judge ruled Tuesday.
London (AFP) Jan 31, 2012 - Britain said Tuesday it was sending a new state-of-the-art warship to the Falklands, but insisted the deployment was purely routine despite rising tensions over the islands' sovereignty.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 31, 2012 - China on Tuesday called for the immediate release of 29 Chinese workers held by Sudanese rebels, as it dispatched a team to the African nation to help defuse the situation.
Cairo (AFP) Jan 31, 2012 - Egyptian Bedouins on Tuesday captured 25 Chinese workers in Sinai to demand the release of Islamist relatives detained over bombings in the peninsula between 2004 and 2006, a security official said.
Baghdad (AFP) Jan 31, 2012 - Iraq has again delayed an auction for a dozen oil and gas exploration blocks, because of changes in contract terms, a top official said on Tuesday.
Singapore (AFP) Jan 31, 2012 - Oil prices rose in Asia Tuesday as traders reacted to better-than-expected economic data from Japan, analysts said.
New York (AFP) Jan 31, 2012 - Oil prices fell Tuesday in New York as markets fretted about weaker-than-expected economic data from the United States, the world's biggest consumer of crude.
Bucharest (AFP) Jan 31, 2012 - Freezing temperatures gripping Romania have sent gas consumption to a record high and forced the country to drastically increase gas imports to cope, an official said Tuesday.
Khartoum (AFP) Jan 30, 2012 - Twenty-nine Chinese workers described as hostages by Sudan's military are in good shape and will be released when the security situation allows, their rebel captors told AFP on Monday.
Tokyo (UPI) Jan 30, 2012 - Exxon Mobil said it is selling a 99 percent stake in its downstream product marketing subsidiary, Exxon Mobil Yugen Kaisha, to Japanese refinery operator TonenGeneral Sekiyu.
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 30, 2012 - India said Monday it may use its own currency, the rupee, to pay for oil imports from Iran in the face of a US-led sanctions campaign aimed at forcing Tehran to abandon its nuclear programme.
Tehran (UPI) Jan 30, 2012 - Iran's Parliament has delayed an emergency vote on immediately cutting off oil supplies to the European Union as a team of nuclear inspectors arrived.
Paris (AFP) Jan 30, 2012 - The world can no longer afford to ignore the environmental cost of economic growth and must redefine the very concept of national wealth, a UN panel of heads of state and environment ministers said Monday.
Beijing (AFP) Jan 29, 2012 - China on Sunday called for greater efforts towards peace and stability in the region, after the Philippines offered to allow more US troops on its territory.
Berlin (AFP) Jan 29, 2012 - Germany Sunday called for restraint from Iran amid an escalation in tensions over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme and a threat to immediately cut off oil exports to Europe.
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 29, 2012 - Japanese manufacturer's greenhouse gas emissions are rising after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, hurting the country's carbon reduction goals, a report said Sunday.
