The “eternal” flames of Baba Gurgur have been burning for thousands of years. Baba Gurgur was thought to be the world's largest oil field before the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia was discovered in 1948.HistoryFirst discovered in northern Iraq in 1927,...

By AFPThe UN appealed Tuesday for the last $14 million needed to try and prevent a stricken oil tanker from triggering a disaster off Yemen that could cost $20 billion to clean up.The decaying 45-year-old FSO Safer, long used as a floating storage pl...