Soaring numbers of foreign diplomats and embassy staff in London are being arrested - but escape justice because they claim immunity from prosecution... more
Yemen's president Ali Abdullah Saleh had successful surgery in Saudi Arabia after a rocket attack which left jagged pieces of wood in his chest... more
World oil prices fall after three days of gains, as fears that high prices would dampen demand overrode concerns over a cut in oil output from Saudi Arabia... more
Air strikes against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi sends oil prices surging amid fears over potential reprisals against Western refineries and lengthy production delays... more
It is a fair bet that Colonel Gaddafi hasn't featured strongly in the Bank of England's deliberations over a decade or so of independence, but a 15% surge in oil prices over the last month has raised the stakes even higher for its heavily divided rate-setters... more
The LSE or Libyan School of Economics, as it has cruelly been redubbed, is in the dog-house for having accepted a £1.5 million grant from Colonel Gaddafi's son. Its director Sir Howard Davies resigned last night to safeguard the college's reputation... more
The head of Saudi Arabia's state oil company says the firm had stepped in to meet demand from customers left clamouring for supplies disrupted by Libya's civil war... more
The bloody chaos in Libya send oil prices hurtling to another new high as fear sweeps through markets over supplies drying up and political turmoil spreading to Saudi Arabia... more
Millennium and Copthorne, the international hotelier which is the first to announce hotel plans for Iraq, saw third-quarter, pre-tax profit slump by almost a third but said “the worst may be behind us” ... more
Foreign diplomats have racked up £1.5million in unpaid parking fines in central London in the past four years, Westminster council has revealed... more
Saudi Arabia's decision to increase oil production by 300,000 barrels a day in June will not help lower the price of crude, Iraq's oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani claims... more
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