Iraq announced on Thursday that it is currently in talks with the US oil giant ExxonMobil and other unspecified firms over potential purchase of the company's 32.7% stake in the West Qurna 1 field

Over 180 people are dead and 47 people are missing as a result of the tropical cyclone Seroja that struck Indonesia's southernmost province of East Nusa Tenggara in early April, the Xinhua news agency on Wednesday

German leader Angela Merkel announced on Monday that this was her last speech as chancellor at the opening of the world's leading trade fair for industrial technology Hannover Messe