Online reports of the recent attacks on oil pipelines in Syria. A dog called Fenton has become the latest internet sensation. And British Royal Navy Sailors in a festive music clip.
Russia's hold on European gas supplies strengthened on Friday when its state-owned natural gas company bought the remaining stake in the Belarusian gas pipeline system, becoming its sole owner.
It's one thing to live in an eco-friendly way, but is it possible to be environmentally friendly in death too? This week, we take a look at new ways to live and die green.
A Ukrainian judge sentenced opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison Tuesday for exceeding her office in connection with a 2009 gas deal with Russia that prosecutors alleged was biased in Moscow's favour.
One person was injured in an overnight attack on a pipeline transporting gas from Egypt to Israel. At least three gunmen opened fire before an explosion hit the pipeline near the town of al-Arish in the northern Sinai peninsula.
Poland dreams of energy independence. The country’s enormous fields of shale gas could be enough to supply its needs for the next 300 years. But environmentalists have attacked the extraction method. We investigate a country torn between preserving the environment and the desire for energy independence.
The European Union said on Friday it was "very concerned" about the worsening health of jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and called for an independent medical exam. Tymoshenko remains jailed as she faces trial for abuse of power.
Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko testified for the prosecution on Wednesday as his onetime Orange Revolution ally, former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, stood trial for overstepping her authority in a 2009 gas deal with Russia.
This week Israel and Lebanon go head to head over who should tap into vast natural gas deposits discovered under the Mediterranean Sea. Also, we look at male-female segregation on public transport in ultra-orthodox neighbourhoods of Israel. Finally, they've gone from an outlawed group to a potent political organisation: who exactly are Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood?
