A jury in the north of England will decide today whether 22 climate change activists who boarded a coal train heading to the notorious Drax power station are innocent or guilty.

Do leopards change their spots? Of course not.

So the United Arab Emirates has won the race to host the new International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) beating off competition from Bonn and Vienna.

A consortium led by oil giant BP and China’s CNPC has today won the contract for the vast Rumaila oil field - the largest oil field in Iraq and one of the biggest in the world.

When Peter Voser (on the right of the photo) takes the helm of the oil giant Shell on Wednesday, he might just start beginning to wonder what a complete mess he has inherited from his predecessor, van der Veer (he’s on the left).