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BP's managing director Bob Dudley will have day-to-day responsibility for managing the company's oil spill response in the Gulf of Mexico. Will he do any better at battling the …

India's far right has found its holy cause for the immediate future: the hanging of Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab and Mohammad Afzal also known as Afzal Guru. The political …

Amid all the news of petrochemical malfeasance in the Gulf - and thank you Rep. Joe Barton, pride of Texas, for your apology to BP, demonstrating everything that's wrong …

One of the many destructive legacies of the Reagan Era was the effective Washington consensus that wars and other military spending exist on their own fiscal planet.

An eyewitness to the June 7 shooting death of a 14-year-old Mexican youth said a U.S. Border Patrol agent took aim at the boy for several seconds after the …

The heads of state for the Group of 20 (G-20) – a body that seeks to coordinate financial regulation and standards across some of the world's largest economies – …

Disruption that touches everything leaves some asking for grief counseling. “This is the one thing that could destroy our culture and I don't want to see it happen,” says …

“We stand by Israel,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley declared, as he voiced the State Department's support for Israel's internal investigation of the attack on the flotilla bound for …

The most pathetic images I have seen in the aftermath of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizons deep-oil drilling rig were of pelicans drenched in oil, with brown glistening …

Shortly before the Deepwater Horizon blowout, Halliburton bought an oil spill prevention firm. The oil-services industry is consolidating, which is not necessarily good news for quality, experts say. Eleven …