WHEN a sprawling yellow banner cascaded from the stands of Basel’s St Jakob-Park football stadium in late-2013 the world was suddenly alerted to a struggle for freedom thousands of kilometres away that had been waging for weeks.

A GROUP of activists who had climbed aboard an oil exploration rig in Arctic waters as part of an ongoing protest against drilling have been arrested.

Environmental activists swam in front of an oil drill ship today in a fresh attempt to halt its operations.