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Two years after Neda Agha-Soltan was killed governments in the Middle East are still using brutality, lies and live ammunition to suppress street protests.

Climate activists protested outside the BP Portrait Award ceremony last night as the oil giant was targeted for sponsoring the event.

he Sarah Palin documents that were released to major news corporations on Friday tell story of an Alaskan governor who craved attention from the national and international media. The attention seeking former Alaskan governor quit half way through her four year term because of a drive to sell books and appear on American chat shows rather than serve the people of Alaska who voted for her.

Ahead of the US president's visit in Europe a lot has been said about the implications of the trip on the U.S-E.U relationships. What seems to be a little bit confusing is however whether it is the president who hopes to reassure his counterparts on the strength and importance of their relationship or whether his counter-parts expect him to do so.

Shares in BP were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the energy giant said it had reached settlement agreements with companies connected with last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Shares in Royal Dutch Shell were up on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading after the energy giant reported a strong rise in income attributable to shareholders in the first quarter of the year.

Shares in BP were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading, despite the energy giant reporting a decline in replacement cost profit in the first quarter of 2011.

Shares in BP were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the energy giant said it would be selling off its wholly-owned subsidiary ARCO Aluminum Inc. to a Japanese consortium.

Shares in Hays were up on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading after the recruitment company reported a surge in pre-tax profit in the half year ended 31 December 2010.

Shares in Royal Dutch Shell were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading despite the energy giant reported a near-doubling of full year earnings.

Shares in BP were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the company reported a full year loss thanks to the impact of last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Shares in Hays were down on the FTSE 250 in morning trading after the recruitment company reported net fee growth of over 20 per cent in the quarter ended 31 December.

Shares in BP were up on the FTSE 100 following reports that arch-rival Royal Dutch Shell had considered a takeover bid for the company.

Shares in BP were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the U.S. government filed a lawsuit against the energy giant for breaches of the Clean Water Act following the oil spill earlier this year.

Leaked U.S. diplomatic cables reveal BP suffered a blowout on an Azerbaijan gas platform in September 2008 and was fortunate to evacuate workers safely after a blast that preceded the one that killed 11 workers in the Gulf of Mexico in April, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported. Other cables leaked by the web site Wikileaks claim Azerbaijan's president accused BP of stealing oil from his country and using "mild blackmail" to secure rights to develop vast gas reserves in the Caspian...

Shares in Royal Dutch Shell were down on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading ahead of the oil giant's third quarter results due out tomorrow.

Shares in BP were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the energy giant said it would be selling its interests in four mature producing deepwater oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico.

Shares in BP were up slightly on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading after the energy giant said it would be selling some of its Venezuelan and Vietnamese businesses to TNK-BP for $1.8 billion.

On 14 October 2010, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California and former "Terminator" actor, was photographed on the steps of No. 10 Downing Street meeting his friend and British Prime Minister, David Cameron. Mr Cameron joked with the gathered reporters that the Governor would help to "terminate the budget deficit", before the pair turned and walked back into No 10. There is little doubt that the deficits of both the UK and California would be amongst the topics the two po...

Shares in BP were up on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading after the oil giant said it had pledged some of its Gulf of Mexico assets as collateral for the $20 billion Deepwaater Horizon Oil Spill Trust, which pays out compensation claims to those affected by this year's disaster at the oil well.

Tate & Lyle shares fell on the FTSE 250 today after the company issued a trading statement ahead of its results for the half year ended 30 September, due out at the beginning of November.

Shares in BP were up on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading after the group's CEO-in-waiting announced the establishment of a new safety division which will have "sweeping powers" in overseeing and auditing BP operations worldwide.

Shares in BP were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the Macondo oil well was declared "dead" by US officials yesterday.

Shares in BP were up on the FTSE 100 ahead of a report in which the oil giant is expected to take some responsibility for the disaster at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the oil spill that followed in the Gulf of Mexico.

Shares in BP were up on the FTSE 100 after the oil giant said that the cost of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had risen by over $2 billion from last month to $8 billion.

An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico has suffered an explosion just five months after an explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon rig led to a massive oil spill which cost the company billions of dollars and its CEO.

Shares in BP were up in morning trading on the FTSE 100 as oil prices rose and the group said that it had effectively plugged the oil leak at the Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP shares stopped their early declines on the FTSE 100 today after it was announced that BP has successfully prevented the oil well from leaking, around three months and five million barrels of oil after the explosion which ruptured the Macondo well, and sent oil streaming into the Gulf of Mexico.

Shares in BP rose on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading following the oil giant's announcement that it had agreed to sell its oil and gas production and transportation business in Colombia, the BP Exploration Company (Columbia) (BPXC).

Shares in Royal Dutch Shell were up in morning trading on the FTSE 100 after the group said it had nearly doubled its earnings in the second quarter of the year.