Under pressure from the US administration to speed up efforts to contain the oil spill and compensate victims, BP had announced a $20-billion claims fund.
Rafael Marquez capitalised on some poor defending and picked his spot to score the equaliser and save Mexico the blushes in the tournament opener of the 2010 World Cup against South Africa in Johannesburg on Friday.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi's French Open campaign was cut short in the second round following a straight-set defeat against local pair of Julien Benneteau and Michael Llodra in Paris on Sunday.
Donald Trump on Thursday reached the magic number of 1,237 delegates, making the real estate mogul the sole claimant to be the Republican party's presidential nominee for the November polls.
Experienced striker Brian Ching was surprisingly left off the United States World Cup squad on Wednesday when coach Bob Bradley named his final squad of 23 for South Africa.
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British energy major BP Plc has spent $6.1 billion in the aftermath of the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in leakage of millions of barrels of its oil into the sea.
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Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez was close to quitting football last year, his father Javier Hernandez Gutierrez has revealed.
Mexican substitute Javier Hernandez scored a last-minute winner to send holders Manchester United into the League Cup quarter-finals with a 3-2 victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford on Tuesday.
Rajesh Roshan's score stays true to his tangent, traditionalist style while embracing modern sounds that impart the movie its smooth flight and soaring touch.
A town in Mexico has left most astonished after it appointed a college going mother-of-one to head a police force in the heart of a traditional route for narco-traffickers.
The billboard, erected along the I-70 Colorado highway sometime on Monday, depicts the four 'Obamas' sitting around a table with playing cards showing only sixes bunched in groups of three.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is hoping Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain can be fully fit in time for the start of the Premier League season after the midfielder struggled with a knee injury last campaign.
BP Plc's response to the devastating Mexican Gulf oil spill is growing more expensive by the day, with the British energy major revising its costs upward to a whopping $2.65 billion.
Carlos Tevez struck twice as Argentina set up a rematch of their 1986 and 1990 World Cup finals with Germany, beating Mexico 3-1 in their second round match in Soccer City on Sunday.
Al Janoub, a 40,000-seat venue made to resemble the sail of a dhow, or traditional wooden sailboat, was opened last May and is the first to showcase the new cooling system.
Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton made the most of the changeable conditions to seize pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix ahead of Ferrari title rival Sebastian Vettel on Saturday.
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A stunning goal from Siphiwe Tshabalala almost gave hosts South Africa the perfect start to the World Cup before they were held to a 1-1 draw in front of almost 85,000 fans at Soccer City on Friday.
The United States is home to about 1.6 million Indian origin people, making them the third-largest immigrant group in the country after Mexicans and Filipino, a Washington-based think tank has said.
Doubts about Force India being able to race at Spa, the first Grand Prix since the August break, emerged on Wednesday with reports of legal complications.
Hamilton has won 71 races, 20 fewer than Schumacher, and four titles for Mercedes in the past five years. The first was with McLaren in 2008.
The Hrithik Roshan-Barbara Mori starrer has become the first Bollywood film to debut in the North American top ten on opening weekend.
Boxer Vikas Krishan won a bronze medal for India after his Mexican opponent Daniel Echeverria was disqualified midway into the men's 60kg class third-place play-off in the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore on Tuesday.
Mexico's World Cup warm-up against Portugal scheduled for May 30 has been cancelled due to a row between the two countries over accommodation at the finals in South Africa, the Mexican federation has said.
Sahara Force India made it official that Mexican driver Sergio Perez will continue racing with the team in 2015 and beyond.
Asarco has filed a lawsuit against one time suitor Sterlite Industries for backing out of a $2.6 billion deal to take the US copper miner out of bankruptcy in 2008.
In a blistering attack on Donald Trump, Indian-American California Attorney General Kamala Harris has said the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has an "unstable temperament" and his dangerous policy positions make him "unfit" for holding a public office.
Pierce will star in big-budget movie Bonded alongside the 26-year-old.
So you want a figure like Salma Hayek -- who doesn't? But here's something you probably don't know about the Mexican beauty.
"Venkat Reddy met a 23-year-old Mexican woman through Internet dating, had a meal at Wendy's restaurant, and drove to a nearby EZ Rest motel around 2 am. This woman's boyfriend and four other cronies who were already waiting at the motel robbed Venkat and shot him to death," said Prasad Thotakura, TANA executive vice president.
Warning that expenses could escalate, the oil major pointed out that it is too early to quantify other potential costs and liabilities associated with the incident.
Australian hard man Tim Cahill was reduced to tears by his dismissal in the 4-0 loss to Germany in their World Cup opener on Sunday and said Bastian Schweinsteiger had made too much of the challenge.
Hosts South Africa were held to a 1-1 draw in front of almost 85,000 fans at Soccer City in the opening match of the 2010 World Cup on Friday.
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On the eve of her Bollywood debut release Kites, co-starring Hrithik Roshan, we got Mexican actress Barbara Mori to share a few quick, little-known facts about herself. Take a look!
Anurag Basu recalls his experience of shooting Kites and his first visit to New York for the film's US premiere.
