Mining heavyweight Coal India overtook energy giant Reliance Industries on Wednesday to become India's biggest firm by market value, reflecting strong coal demand to power an expanding economy.

• August 17, 2011

Russia and Iran on Wednesday said a new Russian plan had a real chance of solving the standoff over the Iranian nuclear drive, despite the failure of past initiatives to end a decade of deadlock.

• August 17, 2011

The Ethiopian Petroleum Enterprise (EPE) is to import coal from South Africa with the aim of securing a sustainable supply of coal as an alternative source of energy for cement factories in Ethiopia, Fortune has learnt.

• August 16, 2011

Japan is considering joining a U.S.-led global nuclear compensation treaty in a bid to fend off excessive overseas damage claims related to nuclear accidents, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Sunday, without citing sources.

• August 15, 2011

Leaders and experts at the forefront of the global clean energy movement will be convening at the Hawai'i Convention Center for the 3rd Annual Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit and Expo, to be hosted by the State of Hawai'i on September 13-15 in Honolulu.

• August 15, 2011

Osama bin Laden is dead. So say the U.S. government, bin Laden's al-Qaida associates and three of his wives, who were with him May 2 when American commandos raided his compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.

• August 13, 2011

India's GMR Infrastructure said on Friday its unit GMR Energy Ltd has entered into a pact to acquire a 30 percent stake in Indonesia's PT Golden Energy Mines Tbk or GEMS, for $450-$550 million in cash, joining the line of Indian firms buying coal assets across the globe to seek fuel security.

• August 12, 2011

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych will discuss integration among former Soviet states at a meeting tomorrow as Ukraine seeks to cut prices on natural-gas imports.

• August 11, 2011