The oil market is working: High-cost production is being retired and new projects are delayed or cancelled while demand is again surging.

A Northern Ireland adventurer who followed the longest river in Iran from source to sea has said it was like dicing with death.

In June, 2012, the New York Times reported that arms were being "funnelled" across the Turkish border into Syria in a covert operation aided by CIA officers.

Thousands of Shiite militiamen have paraded in Baghdad and several other cities in southern Iraq with heavy weaponry, signalling their readiness to take on Sunni militants who seized much of the country’s north.

Former Roscommon goalkeeper Shane Curran has warned the black card will be “intolerable” for referees and difficult for rural clubs with low player numbers.

A new wave of insurgent attacks, mostly car bombs targeting Shiite-dominated cities in central and southern Iraq, killed at least 35 people today, officials said.

At least 24 people have been killed and dozens more were wounded after 10 apparently coordinated car bombings and a shooting took place across Iraq.

Despite — or possibly because of — our history of internecine savagery conducted, in name at least, for nationalism or religion, we should be able to understand the motivations behind the carnage inflicted daily on populations in Middle East.

Iraqi officials say five car bombs have gone off in Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, killing 16 people and wounding 75.

Eight people have been killed and 21 others injured after two car bombs exploded in the south of Iraq, according to authorities.

Three people have been killed and dozens injured as protests by tens of thousands of Pakistanis infuriated by an anti-Islam film descended into deadly violence.

Insurgents killed at least 64 people in a wave of attacks against Iraqi security forces today.

A Sligo-based sports group that counts Real Madrid, Juventus, and Man City among its clients last year recorded an 8% increase in profits to €2.4m after revenues rose 25%.

GOD-hating, priest-baiting, loony leftie Eamon Gilmore secured a key plank of his evil secular masterplan to make us a nation of pagans by shutting down the Vatican embassy.

One of world’s foremost experts in pitch maintenance believes Saturday night’s Six Nations debacle at Stade de France could have been avoided.

A bomb has killed at least 15 Shiite pilgrims near the southern Iraqi port city of Basra.

A roadside bomb has killed two Shiite pilgrims and wounded eight south of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.

Iraq today signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. to tap natural gas in the south, one of the biggest agreements by the OPEC member to develop an energy sector battered by years of neglect and war.

Eleven people have been killed and more than 70 injured by bombings in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, police say.

Seven people were killed tonight when three bombs hidden in motorcycles exploded in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

The US is abandoning plans to keep troops in Iraq past an end-of-year withdrawal deadline, it emerged today.

BRITAIN’S army said the death of an Iraqi detainee in Basra had cast a “dark shadow” over its reputation, after an inquiry found he suffered “gratuitous violence” at the hands of soldiers.

British soldiers could face a fresh prosecution over the brutal death of an Iraqi civilian after a scathing report today condemned the “shameful” abuse of prisoners in UK custody.

Most of the 35 Iraqi terror suspects who tunnelled their way out of a detention facility today were quickly recaptured, a security official said.

Four people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a police building in southern Iraq.

THOUSANDS marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq yesterday, in the largest and most violent anti-government protests here since political unrest began spreading in the Arab world several weeks ago.

Security forces have killed five people in northern Iraq as thousands of protesters rallied in cities across the country for a “Day of Rage.”

Protesters calling for a provincial governor to resign blocked a bridge in the southern Iraqi city of Basra today, as demonstrations against government continued across Iraq.

A FULL year before the US-led invasion of Iraq, then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair told his chief of staff, the West should be “gung-ho” on toppling Saddam Hussein, a panel looking into the conflict disclosed yesterday.

A DOZEN terror suspects disguised in police uniforms strolled out of an Iraqi jail yesterday — even though the 12 were the only detainees held at the makeshift prison.

A FORMER Miss England, dubbed Combat Barbie, faces deployment to Afghanistan after she returned to the army following her stint as a beauty queen.

Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who led several Shiite uprisings against American forces in Iraq before travelling to neighbouring Iran three years ago, has returned to Iraq.

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.

Iraqi Christians cancelled Christmas festivities across the country today as al-Qaida insurgents threatened more attacks on their community.

A group of Iraqi civilians today lost their British High Court bid for a fresh public inquiry into allegations of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment by UK soldiers and interrogators in Iraq.

A blunder by British forces in Iraq allowed al Qaida’s top commander in the country to escape, according to secret war logs controversially leaked into the public domain.

Charges against two Iraqis accused of the murders of six British military policemen more than seven years ago have been dropped by a judge in Baghdad, it has emerged.

A judge has postponed the trial of two Iraqi men accused of killing six British military policemen in 2003.

A string of more than a dozen attacks on Iraqi security forces from one end of the country to the other killed 22 people and left scores wounded on today.

The death toll from an explosion in Iraq’s second-largest city has risen from 20 to 43, health officials revealed today.

An evening explosion killed at least 10 people tonight and wounded 35 in a central market in Iraq’s second-largest city of Basra, officials said.

Two former heads of the British Army will give evidence to the Iraq Inquiry today.

British troops are to be pulled out of the Sangin area of Afghanistan, where nearly a third of UK deaths in the war have occurred.