Google will update its search algorithm today so that it will penalise websites that do not optimise viewing on smartphones and tablets.

Iraq: Revenue from Iraq’s crude oil exports rose to $4.62 billion (€3.5bn) in November, the highest level this year, the State Oil Marketing Organisation said.

A US Senate committee probing corruption in the UN oil-for-food programme released new evidence purporting to show that two leading politicians from Britain and France received millions of barrels of Iraqi oil in exchange for their support of Saddam Hussein’s regime.

British oil giants BP and Shell are poised to start selling oil from Iraq after they won a tendering process.