Gas giant Qatar and Anglo-Dutch major Royal Dutch/Shell signed a $6-$7 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) deal on Sunday to ship gas to north America and Europe. Officials and company executives said the Qatargas 4

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Britain's defence ministry will this week award a 4 billion pounds ($7.64 billion) computer system deal to a consortium headed by US firm EDS and Japan's Fujitsu Services, newspapers said on Sunday. The new system

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US private equity firm the Carlyle Group is considering bidding 450 million pounds ($859.6 million) for the company that refits Britain's nuclear submarine fleet, the Independent on Sunday newspaper reported. Carlyle has held informal talks

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China's breakneck economic growth is causing a dangerous shortage of its most important energy source coal, with potential consequences for the entire world, state media warned Sunday. Scarcity is so severe officials even worry aloud

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A landmark treaty aimed at cutting deaths and illness caused by smoking came into force on Sunday, after 57 countries ratified international restrictions on tobacco producers and smokers, the World Health Organisation said. The WHO

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A former Israeli cabinet minister has admitted he tried to smuggle 30,000 ecstasy tablets into Israel from the Netherlands and faces up to five years in jail, his lawyer said on Sunday. Gonen Segev, energy

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The Bush administration plans to begin Arab-language satellite-television broadcasts to Europe later this year in a new escalation of its information war against Islamic extremism, officials say. Three-and-a-half years after Islamic militants based in Germany

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Pope John Paul II made a surprise appearance at his hospital window Sunday, his first since undergoing surgery on his throat last week. The 84-year-old pontiff waved to the applauding crowd outside the hospital, made

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At least 15 people, including a senior police officer, were killed in violence in Nepal, authorities said on Sunday, a day after Maoists ended a crippling road blockade against King Gyanendra's power grab. In the

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A half-brother of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, accused of masterminding deadly insurgency from neighbouring Syria, has been arrested, officials said on Sunday. "Security forces in Iraq captured the criminal Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikrit, half-brother

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