Energy companies are venturing deeper into the Gulf of Mexico as they explore for and produce new sources of crude and natural gas, a new government report shows.

An Emirati newspaper says Dubai’s deputy police chief has denied a report that pirates have laundered their ransom money through banks in the Gulf city-state.

Echoing last year’s “Drill, baby, drill” Republican election slogan, a GOP-dominated House panel voted Tuesday to allow oil and natural gas exploration and production in Florida waters up to 10 miles into the Gulf of Mexico.

A NATO spokesman says alliance warships and helicopters have foiled an attack on a Norwegian tanker by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.

NATO forces rescued 20 fishermen from pirates who launched the latest attack in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, but let the Somali hijackers go because they had no authority to arrest them.

Somali pirates attacked a tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, but NATO forces chased them down and freed 20 Yemeni fisherman the pirates were holding on another hijacked boat.

In this Gulf city-state, two things have long been untouchable: business interests and the ruling family. However, an attempt to sue a member of the family over an alleged financial swindle is a sign of how much the economic crisis has rattled business as

Greece’s Merchant Marine Ministry says pirates have seized a Greek-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia.

Stephen Colbert is taking his Comedy Central show to the Persian Gulf.

A Florida newspaper reports the search for two NFL players and two other men missing in the Gulf of Mexico cost the U.S. Coast Guard $1.6 million.