A Malaysian state plans to ban shark fishing in a bid to bolster tourism and conserve a species hunted mainly for fins which are used to create a culinary delicacy, an official said today.

TURKISH media published photographs yesterday of police posing with a teenager charged with killing an ethnic Armenian journalist. Newspapers denounced the officers for treating the suspect as a “hero”.

Police in Turkey have foiled an alleged plot to attack premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan and have detained nine suspects, including military officers, newspapers reported today.

OPEC’s president said today that the group needs to increase its output ceiling now despite oversupply in the crude oil market, and may need to act again as US refineries come back on line and the Northern Hemisphere’s winter looms.