Long-serving Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani dies at 90

Ahmed Zaki Yamani, a long-serving oil minister in Saudi Arabia who led the kingdom through the 1973 oil crisis, the nationalisation of its state energy company and later found himself kidnapped by the assassin Carlos the Jackal, died on Tuesday in London. He was 90. Saudi state television reported his death, without offering a cause. It said he would be buried in the Muslim holy city of Mecca.