Venezuela's oil is also of poorer quality than its Saudi equivalent. Its sour, heavy crude is difficult to extract and refine, while its high sulphur content makes it corrosive to pipelines. A resurgence of Venezuela's industry could pose problems for Canada, which produces similarly viscous oil and exports much of …

The Daily Telegraph reports that a man who set fire to a Quran in London may be accepted by the US as a refugee from Britain, if he loses his blasphemy case this week. The paper says the Crown Prosecution Service will contest the decision to overturn Hamit Coskun's conviction …

Russia, Ukraine and US hold trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi The meetings between the three countries comes as both Ukraine and Russia say no peace deal can be reached until territorial issues are resolved

Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, Norway's king of cross-country skiing, became the Winter Olympics' outright most successful athlete with a record ninth gold medal. Klaebo led his nation to the top of the podium in the men's 4x7. 5km relay - alongside team-mates Emil Iversen, Martin Loewstroem Nyenget and Einar Hedegart - …

Team GB made history by winning two Winter Olympic titles on one day for the first time as Matt Weston and Tabitha Stoecker clinched mixed team skeleton gold. It came after Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale won the snowboard cross mixed team event earlier on Sunday. Weston produced a stunning …

The Scottish quartet were in command throughout against the Germans, leading 5-2 at the break before accelerating clear, but the hitherto unbeaten Swiss proved more obdurate opposition. Mouat's men led 3-2 at the break - a steal in the third proved the difference - and it took until the seventh …

Several snow and ice warnings had been in place over the weekend as frosty Arctic air spread south across the country. Meanwhile, the Environmental Agency has dozens of flood warnings and alerts in place across England

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Robert Corfield admitted when confronted by the BBC that he sexually abused a boy, Michael Havet, in the 1980s. Corfield's was one of more than 1,100 names given to a hotline set up to report sexual abuse within the church, which has no official name but is often referred to …

"The family are in distress. All they want is their father to be returned, their grandfather to be returned," he said, appealing for people to report any unusual activity seen around properties known to be empty