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Brewing tropical rainstorm halts work to plug well 22.07.2010 | Email | Print Tropical rainstorms moving toward the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday threatened to shut down undersea efforts to seal BP`s ruptured well, interrupting work just as engineers get close to plugging the leak with mud and cement.A weather system brewing in Tags:

Arizona Immigration Law Court Battle Begins 22.07.2010 | Email | Print A federal judge will hear arguments Thursday from lawyers for the governor, the U.S. government and civil rights groups over whether Arizona`s new law requiring police to run checks on immigration status should take effect in a week. U.S. District Ju Tags:

Insurers kept surplus while hiking premiums 22.07.2010 | Email | Print Non-profit Blue Cross and Blue Shield health plans stockpiled billions of dollars during the past decade, yet continued to hit consumers with double-digit premium increases, Consumers Union found in an analysis of 10 of the plans` finances. Insurers Tags:

Jolie, Liev Schreiber bond over parenting 22.07.2010 | Email | Print They play gun totting secret agents in their latest film Salt but Angelina Jolie and Live Schreiber were discussing babies in between takes. The actors who are both parents to young children, spent their time exchanging notes on their offspring, repo Tags:

The Poisoning 22.07.2010 | Email | Print On July 15th, just as this article was going to press, BP lowered a 75-ton cap over the damaged wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico and closed — at least temporarily — the gushing hellmouth of oil. How long that cap will hold is not clear. At Tags:

Big Oil plans rapid response to future spills 22.07.2010 | Email | Print ExxonMobil, Chevron Corp., Conoco Phillips and Shell Oil said Wednesday they`ve agreed to pool $1 billion to form a new company that would respond to offshore oil spills at up to 10,000 feet underwater. The system would deploy equipment that could ar Tags:

Politicking clouds economic decision-making, with economists more optimistic than public 22.07.2010 | Email | Print Midterm politics are distorting economic decision-making as leaders of both parties spin rival views of the road ahead, offering visions based on questionable economics.The resulting political angst is leaving a mark on major legislation. A far-reach Tags:

Obama`s oil spill commission had web of BP and oil industry interests 22.07.2010 | Email | Print Oil runs so deep in American life that when President Barack Obama formed an independent commission to investigate the Gulf spill, he ran into something of an oil patch of his own. Both commission chairmen had stock in BP as well as broader interests Tags:

Arizona|s Libertarian, Green parties hope to tap voter frustration 13.07.2010 | Email | Print Arizona`s third-party candidates, representing the Libertarian and Green parties, hope to tap into voter frustration over the economy and the state budget to win election to the Governor`s Office. Although they face an uneven contest that heavily fav Tags:

Burundi’s Military on High Alert Following Uganda Attack 13.07.2010 | Email | Print An official with Burundi`s army said the military has been put on high alert to protect unarmed civilians, as well as the country`s sensitive installations, following Sunday night’s deadly twin blasts in Uganda`s capital, Kampala. The explosion Tags:

Israeli Probe Faults Military Planning in Deadly Raid on Gaza Aid Flotilla 13.07.2010 | Email | Print Israel has published its first internal investigation of the deadly raid on an aid flotilla heading to the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip. An Israeli military inquiry said the army was poorly prepared for the raid on an aid flotilla trying to break th Tags:

Somali Militants Claim Uganda Bomb Attacks 13.07.2010 | Email | Print Al-Qaida`s affiliate in Somalia, al-Shabab, has taken responsibility for two separate bombings late Sunday in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The death toll has risen to more than 70 and dozens more remain seriously wounded. Speaking to reporters from Tags:

Castro shifts to market reforms to tackle economic crisis 13.07.2010 | Email | Print Cubans is preparing to abolish ration books and free lunches for workers in a shift away from the communist policies that have shaped the country for more than half a century. President Raul Castro, 79, is ush ering in a raft of market reforms design Tags:

BMW Group raises sales volume and earnings forecast for 2010 13.07.2010 | Email | Print Improved business conditions on the international automobile markets mean that the BMW Group now expects to report much better second-quarter and full-year earnings than previously forecast.   13.1% more cars were sold during the first half of Tags:

North Korea, US to Hold Warship Talks 12.07.2010 | Email | Print Senior officers from the U.S.-led United Nations Command and North Korea are expected to meet Tuesday to discuss the recent sinking of a South Korean warship. The United Nations Command said Monday the meeting will be at the truce village of Panmunj Tags:

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