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Moex to pay $1bn to BP over oil spill
Moex Offshore, one of BP's minority partners in the Macondo well that ruptured in last year's Gulf of Mexico accident, has agreed to pay the UK oil group $1.1bn to settle all claims between the two
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:16A
Judges Report On Gagging Orders Published
Media and other interested parties should be allowed to take part in injuction hearings in the future, the Lord Chief Justice has said. The results of a year-long review into the use of injunctions and superinjunctions have been published by the Master
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:16A
Superinjunctions granted far too readily, judges say
In a report that repeatedly stresses the importance of "open justice", the study headed by the Master of the Rolls, Lord Neuberger, proposes giving the media advance notice of applications for gagging orders. Dismissing allegations that judges have
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:16A
Mac App Store's slow updates 'expose users to security risks'
Since then, however, Opera has released two updates to add features, fix crash bugs and patch vulnerabilities in the browser. Yesterday, Opera updated to version 11.11, which closed a critical hole that could be exploited by attackers to infect a Mac
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:15A
More in Thurston, Pierce counties file for bankrupcy
South Sound personal and business bankruptcy filings continued an upward trend in the first quarter of the year, rising in both Thurston and Pierce counties, according to data compiled by the US Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington.
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:15A
BP settles with MOEX over Macondo spill
“MOEX ... has joined BP in recognizing and acknowledging the findings by the Presidential Commission that the accident was the result of a number of separate risk factors, oversights and outright mistakes by multiple parties and a number of causes,” BP
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:15A
A musing about Ken Clarke and Cllr Jane Cooper
He is doing things to our justice system which the Labour Party when in government never had the courage to do. On the basis that the purpose of sending a young criminal to jail is to ensure that he learns his lesson and does not offend again what is
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:15A
Christian Vice President Chosen for MB's New Political Party
The new party called Hizb al-Horriya w Alaadala, Freedom and Justice Party, was founded on April 30 of this year and originally announced it would contest nearly half of the seats in the upcoming parliamentary election.
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:15A
Controversial Matadero Trail opens
The trails, which were proposed in 1995, prompted a 2006 lawsuit against the county and the University that claimed that the environmental review of plans had been insufficient. The state Supreme Court overturned an appellate court ruling on that case
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:15A
South African train crash injures 857
"Out of the 857 that were injured, only two were critically injured; the rest were minor injuries." The accident occurred about 6:00pm (local time) when a passenger train smashed into a stationary train during the peak rush hour period.
Updated: 05/20/2011 05:15A
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