Unable to get an Algerian visa in Paris, we sped south through Italy to catch the ferry from Sicily to Tunisia and see if we could blag our way(...)

Irish exploration company Petroceltic has reported an operating profit helped by the producing assets of recently acquired Melrose Resources. (...)

Geoff Hill outside the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

Leaving Barcelona, how poignant it was to say farewell to young Peter Murtagh, the retiring Clancy correspondent of this very newspaper, since (...)

Petroceltic chief executive Brian O'Cathain said a financing deal signed with a syndicate of banks and the International Finance Corporation represented a ‘strong technical and financial endorsement’ of the company’s exploration plans. Photograph: The Irish Times

Oil and gas exploration firm Petroceltic has secured up to $500 million (€382 million) in financing from a syndicate of international banks and(...)

Johan Jansen and his 1988 BMW R100 with its home-made luggage boxes. Photograph: Peter Murtagh

Johan Jansen is a gardener. He is 50 years of age and single. Johan lives in Eindhoven in the southern part of the Netherlands, not too f(...)

A French soldier photographed in an armoured vehicle outside Gao, Mali, earlier this month. Militants say they killed their hostage Philippe Verdon in retaliation for the French intervention in Mali. Photograph: Emmanuel Braun/Reuters

Al-Qaeda's wing in north Africa said it had beheaded a French hostage in retaliation for France's intervention in Mali, Mauritania's ANI news a(...)

No one got on well on El Silencio island, certainly not the prisoners nor their children nor their babies taken away from Esma, the torture cen(...)

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