A waddle of penguins has stopped a $2.5bn (£1.9bn) mining project in Chile.

Beijing will intensify its battle against choking air pollution this year and aims to cut coal use by 30 percent, state news agency Xinhua cited the mayor, Cai Qi, as saying.

The Colombian National Health Institute recorded 18,524 malaria cases in 2015.

The European Union is mulling over phasing out one and two cent coins after it emerged that they cost more than their face value to mint.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo's new prime minister has ordered an investigation into the nation's mining industry after a damning report by an international watchdog found tens of millions of dollars a year in tax revenues were being lost in the system.

Coal-fired power stations trialling 'carbon capture' technology could be exempt from regulations.

Blythe Masters, the British woman who runs JPMorgan's commodities division, has steered the department to record turnover exceeding $2.8bn (£1.8bn) in 2011, more than long-time industry leaders Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

The group hit its production target despite virtually no output from its Daw Mill colliery in Warwickshire during December.

The battle won, now it's time to prepare for the war.

Indonesia's Bakrie brothers ended weeks of uncertainty yesterday, agreeing a last-minute deal to sell nearly a quarter of Bumi, the FTSE 100 listed, Indonesia-based coal giant, to pay off their debt mountain.

_ A miner who died when a roof collapsed in a pit was named by the mine owner today. Gerry Gibson, 49, died at Kellingley Colliery, North Yorkshire, yesterday when he was trapped with a colleague, who was rescued. UK Coal, which owns the pit, said Mr

Royal Bank of Scotland, the taxpayer-owned banking giant, has been threatened with cyber-attacks by the hacker collective Anonymous, for lending financial support to oil projects in Canada.