Amateur ham radio operators from around Munster will wind turn back the clock this weekend when they attempt to communicate via radio and Morse code with hundreds of radio clubs throughout the world.

A secretive tree-living carnivore from the cloud forests of the Andes heads this year’s top 10 list of newly discovered species.

Irish schoolchildren made their own mini comets yesterday as the world waited for a comet-chasing probe to wake up and phone home from some 800m kilometres away.

IRISH scientists working on an ambitious European Space Agency-led comet-chasing mission face an anxious wait when the Rosetta probe is due to wake from its deep-space hibernation some 673 million kilometres away, near Jupiter. Follow the live updates from Eoin English here.

Tullow Oil discovered its first crude off Norway after at least 10 unsuccessful wells this year.

Tullow Oil has abandoned two wells in two continents after finding no hydrocarbons at either.

Irish-founded exploration firm Tullow Oil has moved a step closer to commercialisation in Kenya—long since tipped as being the next major African territory for the company.

A pair of rare monkeys have started a new family at Dublin Zoo.

Tullow Oil should be rid of much of its non-core gas assets by the middle of this year, with the sale of its eight Asian gas licences in Pakistan and Bangladesh finally set to conclude before the end of June.

Tullow Oil slumped to a four-month low in London trading yesterday after failing to make a commercial find at the Zaedyus-2 well off French Guiana in South America.

Tullow Oil has entered talks aimed at selling off its non-core Asian assets, but no deal is expected to conclude before the end of the year.

Tullow Oil, the Irish explorer with the most licenses in Africa, climbed the most in six weeks in London trading after raising its estimate of crude at Kenya’s first oil find.

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A 35% increase in production levels helped Tullow Oil achieve a second consecutive year of record financial growth in 2011.

Tullow Oil plc has today issued an upbeat interim management statement, for the period July 1 to November 8, 2011.

The state yesterday dutifully handed over €713 million to unsecured Anglo Irish bondholders and will again stick its hands in our pockets and fork out a further €1.25 billion in January.

THE State yesterday handed over €713m to unsecured Anglo Irish bondholders and will pay out €1.25bn in January.

A RUSSIAN cargo ship was launched successfully to the International Space Station yesterday, clearing the way for the next manned mission and easing concerns about the station’s future after a previous failed launch.

ROYAL Dutch Shell, Europe’s biggest oil company, said third-quarter profit doubled as energy prices rose and it ramped up projects from Qatar to Canada.

TULLOW Oil Plc’s share estimate was raised 25% by Sanford C Bernstein & Co, as the explorer found the first oil in French Guiana, a new regional frontier.

THIS summer’s volatility across global stock markets continued yesterday, with Thursday’s gains wiped out amid widespread investor nervousness over the European banking sector and whether US President Barack Obama’s $447 billion (€327bn) job creation plan stands up.

TULLOW Oil shares soared almost 20% after its French Guiana exploration resulted in an offshore oil discovery, raising the prospect of the opening of a major offshore oil-producing operation in South America.

Tullow Oil has announced an oil discovery from an exploration well off the coast of French Guiana.

TULLOW Oil has doubled its interim dividend per share — to 4p — this year, on the back of a record set of first half earnings.

TULLOW Oil, the Irish Stock Exchange-quoted explorer with the most licenses in Africa, may cut production guidance for this year after delays at projects including Jubilee, its largest field.

THE European Union announced yesterday it will launch the first two satellites in its long-delayed and hugely over-budget Galileo navigation system from French Guiana on October 20.

OIL production levels from Tullow Oil’s Ghana-based Jubilee Field — which started producing late last year — have increased to over 70,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) and are on course to reach the forecast 120,000 bopd level by July.

Two flight recorders that could unravel the cause of an Air France crash almost two years ago have arrived at French investigators’ headquarters in a high security operation.

TULLOW Oil is expecting its most lucrative asset, the Jubilee field in Ghana, to further boost its overall profitability this year following its partial contribution to a more than four-fold increase in pre-tax profits last year.

Tullow Oil today announced the discovery of a "major light oil field" in one of its offshore Ghana licences.

Tullow Oil plc has announced that it has agreed a new deepwater exploration licence with Suriname's state oil company Staatsolie for an area off the coast of the South American country

IN Papillon, the epic 1973 film about a pair of criminals sent to French Guiana for a life of hard labour, one of the many mistakes Steve McQueen’s captors make is to give him a butterfly net. When Dustin Hoffman’s near-sighted Dega catches a rare and beautiful blue butterfly, McQueen bargains with a visiting insect dealer for a passage off their tropical island prison.

TULLOW Oil has raised just under £1 billion (€1.15bn) in a share placing in order to fund fresh exploration and the ongoing development of existing assets.

A stabbing death in a Suriname border town set off rioting that targeted foreign workers, with at least 20 women raped.

TULLOW Oil, which is engaged in both oil exploration and production, has announced two significant developments for the group yesterday.

Total has acquired a 25% interest in the Guyane Maritime Permit from Hardman Petroleum France SAS, an affiliate of Tullow Oil plc.

Brazil’s president said “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation.

Celtic have completed the signing of striker Marc-Antoine Fortune from French side Nancy.

Officials delayed next month’s scheduled launch of a rocket carrying a space telescope and a spacecraft to gather information about the Big Bang cosmic explosion.

The former husband of French hostage Ingrid Betancourt said today that he fears she is dead after six years of rebel captivity in Colombia’s jungle, expressing doubts about a government offer to obtain her release.

Europe's most ambitious space project has been successfully launched.

TULLOW Oil has said exploration will focus on Africa and India this year to boost reserves.

France will rewrite a much-contested law that requires textbook publishers to put an upbeat spin on France’s colonial past, President Jacques Chirac said Wednesday.