US stock indexes fluttered up and down on Thursday - then ended the day a fraction above where they started.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun a historic visit to Cyprus, declaring the two countries’ warming ties a “natural relationship”.

Lebanon has asked the United Nations to protect the country’s natural gas reserves along the maritime border with Israel.

Oil and gas exploration company Providence Resources today said it had begun drilling two new wells at the Singleton oil field, onshore UK.