THE Australian government has said it plans to establish the world’s biggest marine protection zone to safeguard a huge swathe of the Coral Sea.

An American judge who struck out the Obama administration’s six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, according to financial disclosure reports.

A THIRD of EU subsidies for the fishing industry over the past 12 years went to building bigger fishing vessels while another third went to scrapping fleet, a new website on where the money goes has revealed.