Boise, Idaho (AFP) July 28, 2010 - Lawyers for Gulf of Mexico disaster victims opened the first stage in a massive civil trial Thursday, arguing for the venue to be in one of the hardest hit states and not the oil headquarters of Texas as requested by BP.
London (AFP) July 28, 2010 - BP's outgoing chief executive Tony Hayward was the target of fresh US anger Wednesday after claiming he had been demonised and vilified, threatening efforts to draw a line under the Gulf oil spill.
Beijing (AFP) July 28, 2010 - At least 12 people died and more than 300 were injured by a powerful explosion triggered when a chemical pipeline ignited in eastern China on Wednesday, state media said.
Jakarta (UPI) Jul 28, 2010 - Indonesia aims to tap into its massive reserves of geothermal energy.
Cadarache, France (AFP) July 28, 2010 - The European Union and six states backing a multi-billion-dollar nuclear fusion project said Wednesday they had reached a deal on the financing and timetable for the experimental reactor.
Washington (AFP) July 28, 2010 - US Senators feuded Wednesday over whether oil firms should have to pay for all economic damages from spills like the Gulf of Mexico disaster, a dispute that could sink a pared-back energy bill.
San Francisco CA (SPX) Jul 28, 2010 - Biomagnetics Diagnostics has announced that Zhuhai Oil Energy Science and Technology has significantly increased its biofuel production capacity at its Guangdong operation.
London (AFP) July 27, 2010 - BP said Tuesday it suffered a loss of 16.9 billion dollars in the second quarter in the wake of the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which is forecast to cost the company 32.2 billion dollars.
Dhaka, Bangladesh (UPI) Jul 27, 2010 - Bangladesh and India signed a power transmission agreement Monday for electricity to be imported to energy-starved Bangladesh.
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (SPX) Jul 27, 2010 - Crops can be produced for bioenergy on a significant scale in west, eastern and southern Africa without doing damage to food production or natural habitats, according to a report produced by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Imperial College London, and CAMCO International. The study was released at the 5th African Agriculture Science Week in Burkina Faso.
London (AFP) July 27, 2010 - BP's chief executive Tony Hayward resigned on Tuesday, claiming to have been demonised and vilified over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster that is set to cost the British group 32 billion dollars.
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jul 27, 2010 - A group of University of Toronto high-energy physicists, along with their 3,000 ATLAS colleagues, announced they have broken world records in the search for new particles as the first findings from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were presented this morning in Paris, France.
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) July 27, 2010 - With BP's leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico finally capped, the focus shifts to the surface clean-up and the question on everyone's lips is: where is all the oil?
Tehran (UPI) Jul 27, 2010 - Iran says it has launched a program to develop a nuclear fusion reactor, an ambition deemed unrealistic by Western analysts.
Tokyo (AFP) July 27, 2010 - Japan and China agreed on Tuesday to seek an early conclusion to talks over plans to jointly exploit oil and gas fields in a disputed area of the East China Sea, officials said.
Washington (AFP) July 27, 2010 - President Barack Obama's reckless moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is suffocating small businesses and destroying livelihoods, lawmakers and residents said Tuesday.
