Stars who hit the red carpet on day six at the Toronto International Film Festival!
The billion dollar penalty of the kind imposed on BP will not deter risky operations but it will hopefully create an incentive for stricter safety measures.
The world's biggest filmmaker has offered his fleet of private submarines to BP (formerly British Petroleum), to assist the company in stopping the massive oil flow threatening the Gulf of Mexico, caused by its leaking oil rig, the Deepwater Horizon.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has called for the federal government to respond promptly to the BP oil spill which has occurred off the Louisiana coast. The spill which occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on April 0, 2010 has spread rapidly and poses a severe threat to the wildlife in the marshes that dot the Louisiana coast. The blowout caused an explosion which led to the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform.
BP spokesman Mark Proegler said that the oil major had approved a test of Costner's Ocean Therapy device to help the company clean up the Gulf after its Deepwater Horizon drill rig exploded and began spewing oil into the water.
Volkswagen can pay $18 billion, over time, and retain its credit rating.
A look at the winners of the 89th Annual Academy Awards.
Reaffirming his commitment to destroy the Islamic State, United States President Barack Obama said America will destroy any militant organisation that tried to harm its people but ruled out sending large scale troops on the ground as done in the case of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Intel's Young Scientist Karan Jerath talks about inventing, innovating and life.
How on earth did Dr Manmohan Singh and his ministers conclude that the casualties of a disaster in a nuclear plant would be fewer than the deaths and injuries caused by the Bhopal gas tragedy? And that the compensation could, therefore, be capped at a smaller amount, asks T V R Shenoy.
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