World leaders and top dignitaries have begun arriving in Saudi Arabia to give their condolences following the death of King Abdullah, who died yesterday aged 90 after nearly two decades at the helm.

Tullow Oil is to take a $2.3bn (€1.97bn) hit as a result of plummeting world oil prices.

An estimated 300 people are living in modern-day slavery in Ireland, according to a global report on the issue.

An estimated 300 people are living in modern day slavery in Ireland, according to a new global report on the issue.

Tullow Oil is to significantly redistribute its short-term capital spend levels away from exploration and more towards the development and production of its already proven assets.

Four people with fever considered at risk for ebola were being tested in Spain yesterday for the virus, including one who arrived on an Air France jet that was isolated at Madrid’s airport as a precaution, officials said.

Tullow Oil has continued its non-core asset disposal programme by agreeing the sale of four Dutch -based gas assets for almost €63m.

Tullow Oil is writing off $150m (€110m) of current year exploration costs linked with failed drilling work.

Tullow Oil has successfully refinanced a large element of debt originally due for repayment this year.

TO paraphrase the well-worn phrase from the great poet, TS Eliot (who may well have stolen it from someone else), his advice to writers was: “Don’t plagiarise, steal.” We arrive at the end of our journey, and find the place we should have visited at the beginning.

Tullow Oil has said there is a good chance it may complete the planned farm-out of part of its stake in the highly-rated Ten oil project in Africa this year, although it reiterated that it is in “no rush” to do so.

Japanese investors are reportedly lining up to buy part of Tullow Oil’s stake in the high potential $5bn-valued TEN oil project, located off the coast of Ghana.

Tullow Oil remains on course to reach record oil production levels by the end of this year, management said yesterday.

A company that printed ballot papers for the last European elections has been charged with corruption in England.

An Estonian has begun a trip around the world in a Toyota Land Cruiser that he turned into an amphibious vehicle that will cross land, oceans and rivers on a 60,000km journey.

An intercepted secret message between al Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and his deputy in Yemen about plans for a major terror attack was the trigger for the current shutdown of many US embassies.

America’s security chiefs have met to review the threat of a terrorist attack that led to the weekend closure of 21 US embassies and consulates in the Muslim world and a global travel warning.

The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world for the weekend.

EGYPT’S brief flirtation with democracy came to a tearful end. Regimes pay lip service to ‘the will of the people’, but it’s a principle ‘more honoured in the breach than in the observance’.

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.

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.

The Islamic militants in the Algerian gas plant massacre had inside help for what was an organised, carefully planned attack, it was confirmed today.

A total of 37 foreign hostages were killed during the four-day-long siege of the Algerian natural gas plant, the country’s prime minister has announced.

Algerian special forces are continuing to hunt Islamist militants who overran a BP gas plant as freed hostages headed home.

Islamist guerrillas are turning the vast Sahara into a new theatre of war against the West, writes Alex Diaz

The Department of Foreign Affairs has said the Irish man held captive in Algeria has contacted his family to tell them he is “safe and well” and is no longer a hostage.

Seven hostages are alive in Algeria, including three Belgians, two Americans, a Briton and a Japanese citizen, according to Islamist militants.

Fears are growing today for the safety of western hostages seized by Islamic militants in Algeria amid reports that as many as 35 have been killed during an Algerian helicopter attack.

It's called the Richat Structure, and it's located in the west African nation of Mauritania.

Security forces in Algeria have surrounded Islamist fighters who killed two people and have taken 41 foreign hostages, including one Irishman.

An Irishman is among up to 41 oil workers believed to have been kidnapped by al Qaeda-affiliated group at a gas field in Algeria.

Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is being transferred to Paris for treatment and examinations after being wounded when the military fired on his vehicle outside the capital.

Fury over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world, with deadly clashes near Western embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, an American fast-food restaurant set ablaze in Lebanon, and international peacekeepers attacked in the Sinai despite an appeal for calm from Egypt’s president.

Irish oil exploration company Tullow Oil has discovered the first natural gas find off Kenya, adding to Tullow’s recent first inland oil discovery in March.

The man accused of helping in some of the worst crimes committed by ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gadaffi has been extradited back to Libya after fleeing to Mauritania.

In Syria, a person is ‘disappeared’ when they’re arrested, detained or abducted. Only the lucky ones return to their families, writes Noeleen Hartigan

Abu Hafs al Mauritani, who was a senior adviser to al Qaida, was released from a prison in Mauritania over the weekend, his family confirmed.

Mauritania said today it has arrested former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, who was one of the most prominent figures from the ousted regime of Muammar Gaddafi and is wanted by the International Criminal Court.

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

More than 15,000 people including Malian military personnel have fled into neighbouring countries since members of the nomadic Tuareg ethnic group launched a new rebellion against the Malian government last month, aid officials say.

The EU is doubling humanitarian aid to Africa’s Sahel area to €95 million in a “race against time” to lift two million people facing food shortages out of danger.

Gunmen murdered a German man in Mali’s most famous city and seized three men from the Netherlands, South Africa and Sweden, as officials ordered a plane to evacuate foreigners from the tourist destination.