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22-year-old Mexico woman crowned Miss Universe (AP)
LAS VEGAS – A 22-year-old Mexico woman won the Miss Universe pageant Monday night after donning a flowing red gown and telling an audience it’s important to teach kids family values. Jimena Navarrete of Guadalajara was first contestant to answer an interview question onstage and the last of 83 standing in the headline-grabbing pageant on the Las Vegas Strip.
Gulf oil spill: US scientists reject talk of plumes and report 75% of slick has gone
A US Coast Guard aircraft sprays oil dispersant over the Gulf of Mexico. Officials say this action has limited the damage to the Louisiana coastline.
BP says ‘static kill’ has successfully plugged oil well
The Development Driller III, which is drilling the primary relief well, and the Helix Q4000, background left, the vessel being used to perform the static kill operation, are seen at the site of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP BP claimed today that it has successfully plugged the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well, for now at least, using a “static kill” technique.
BP’s incoming boss Bob Dudley says clean-up operation may be scaled down
Bob Dudley suggested recovery operations could be scaled down, but did not try to suggest the spill was anything other than a disaster. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters As the visible oil in the Gulf of Mexico dwindles, the incoming boss of BP has said it could be time to scale down the vast operation to clean up the damage wreaked by the company’s Deepwater Horizon spill.
Obama on The View: president is chatshow guest
President Barack Obama appears on ABC’s The View, with co-hosts from left, Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Photograph: Steve Fenn/AP Barack Obama today becomes the first sitting US President to appear on a daytime television chatshow, reflecting on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the economic crisis, and the fact his soon-to-be teenage daughters still, for the moment, “like” him.
BP CEO to walk away with $18 million: report (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM)
LONDON (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) – BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward will collect a pay and pension package worth at least 11.8 million pounds ($18.03 million) when he steps down from his role at the company, the Times newspaper reported on Sunday. The Times said Hayward will be giving up 546,000 share options and a maximum of 2 million shares in the company under a long-term incentive plan, now worth an estimated 8 million pounds.
BP denies ‘buying silence’ of oil spill scientists
BP clean-up workers collect tar balls and other oil debris. The firm has been accused of muzzling the academics it is hiring Photograph: Alex Ogle/AFP/Getty Images BP has rejected accusations of muzzling the scientists and academics it has hired to help fight hundreds of lawsuits relating to the gulf of Mexico oil spill .
BP oil cap may not have stopped leak
Oil sheen is seen among vessels assisting near the source of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images Concerns are mounting about the new cap over BP ‘s damaged Gulf of Mexico oil well after engineers detected seepage and a possible methane gas leak on the seabed.
David Cameron: UK is junior partner in special relationship with US
David Cameron will meet Barack Obama during his first trip to the US as prime minister. Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP David Cameron has risked the wrath of many in his own party by describing Britain as the junior partner in the special relationship between the UK and the US.
House panel OKs overhaul of oil drilling agency
WASHINGTON – A House panel approved legislation Thursday that would overhaul the government agency responsible for regulating offshore drilling. The bill would divide the agency into three parts: one for leasing and permitting; another for inspections and investigations; and a third to collect revenue.
