Traders throughout the world welcomed BP's settlement news Monday with the company's stock hitting its highest level in more than a year.
Canadian gold miner AuRico Gold Inc. said Monday its reserves of gold shot up last year by more than one million ounces on its acquisition of Capital Gold Corp. and Northgate Minerals Corp.
The 15-month-old girl from Indiana had been found alive in a field Friday after a tornado ripped through her family's mobile home, killing her parents and two siblings.
A lack of agreement between media company MVS and the Mexican government over how to unlock a private broadband project is threatening to shelve the plan for several more years as growing court appeals cloud the case.
Gas prices are a potent weapon in an election year. TransCanada Corp's proposed $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would move 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf, has suddenly become an inalienable part in the election rhetoric.
Late Friday night, BP announced that a $4.7 billion settlement had been reached with individual plaintiffs who sought damages related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
BP and three other energy companies late Friday reached a settlement with thousands of individuals and businesses affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill that killed 11 workers and fouled the Gulf of Mexico with millions of gallons of oil.
BP PLC said early Saturday that it has agreed to a $7.8 billion deal with a committee representing plaintiffs to settle claims by fishermen and other private claimants who were adversely affected by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.
BP PLC and plaintiffs in the largest lawsuit filed in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 have agreed on the terms of a proposed class settlement, according to an order signed late Friday by the judge handling the case.
Liverpool transfer news late on Thursday talked of Colombian striker Jackson Martinez's claims of interest from Anfield.
The U.S. Navajo Nation has sued Urban Outfitters Inc. for trademark violations and licensing discrepancies in regard to products offered in its retail stores and online.
The Google YouTube team announced a brand new series, Versus, which will invite celebrities to debate different global issues. The debates will be streamed from YouTube. Versus will be part of a collaborative venture with Intelligence Squared, the self-described world's premier forum for debate and intelligent discussion. Real-time voting on the channel will allow debaters to delve more deeply into arguments that are resonating with viewers.
Another 26 states and the District of Columbia have requested a federal waiver from parts of the No Child Left Behind law, bringing the total number of exemption-seekers to 38 and underscoring the widespread view that the landmark 2001 education overhaul has been a failure.
The probability of a sharp global slowdown has eased due to recent policy measures adopted in the euro zone to tackle its debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, but it warned risks to world growth remain squarely to the downside.
Latinos, a large and growing voting bloc in several swing states, could play a pivotal role in deciding the U.S. presidential election. A raft of tough new state immigration laws, combined with rhetoric from its candidates, could hurt the Republican Party in November.
With victory over Italy, it looks like Jurgen Klinsmann is building the United States in the right direction.
Inspired by the announcement of Sen. Olympia Snowe's retirement, we take a look at the which members of the 112th Congress have no plans to reclaim their seats in November.
TransCanada recently announced its plan to construct the southernmost portion of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, following the project's rejection by President Barack Obama earlier in January.
American soccer relished a historical win on Wednesday when superpower Italy were beaten 1-0 in a friendly, with Clint Dempsey scoring in the 55th minute.
Attorney General Eric Holder says he's ready to take BP and and other defendants to court in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Mexico economic growth has been strong in the wake of the Great Recession, thanks in large part to its fiscal and monetary discipline, said Dallas Federal Reserve Bank chief Richard Fischer in a speech in New Mexico.
Among the victims of the Syrian uprising are a number of western journalists, the only independent witnesses remaining in the besieged city. Their plight was highlighted after the renowned war correspondent Marie Colvin, 56, and French photographer Remi Ochlik, 28, were both killed when a rocket hit their makeshift media center in the middle of Homs last week.
