Norwegian oil and gas exploration company, Statoil ASA, has said it will deliver up to 6.5 billion cubic metres of gas to Dutch energy company Essent.

RESCUERS called off a search yesterday for 15 missing Filipino crew members of a freighter that capsized a day earlier in a shallow, icy Norwegian inlet, bringing the toll of those feared dead to 18.

A huge deployment of British tanks and armoured personnel carriers were today being loaded on to ships in Germany headed for the Gulf.