BP: A Failure of Focus and Metrics
Now that BP (BP) seems to bring forth capped the oil leak and replaced Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, cleanup efforts desire share the stage with investigations and recriminations about what led to the Apr. 20 explosion at the Deep Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. An of high standing lesson for BP [...]
World Cup footballers Messi and Ronaldo join roar for ban on ‘deafening’ vuvuzela
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi joined calls by broadcasters and fans to ban the vuvuzela at the World Cup in the same manner with British supermarkets reported selling one of the plastic horns every sum of ~ units seconds.
English football authorities appeared powerless to stop their spread to the pertaining to home game, though the [...]
Afghanistan ‘holds $1 trillion in mineral deposits$’
Afghanistan is session on mineral resources worth $1 trillion and could become one of the earth’s most important mining centres, the Pentagon announced yesterday, at the same time that it tried to drum up foreign investment and wean the rural parts off the opium trade.
A Pentagon memo predicted that the rural parts could [...]
Why Dudley’s BP May Be Even Riskier
Robert Dudley, the piece charged with righting BP (BP), won’t sound a retreat. Despite the gloomy blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, BP will plunge even deeper into deepwater research. Dudley, who becomes the first American chief executive officer of the British oil cyclops on Oct. 1, will slim BP to its core strength: [...]
Britain must prepare for casualty spike in Afghanistan, Cameron warns
David Cameron warned yesterday that there would be more British deaths in Afghanistan this summer but said that the threat to Britain of an al-Qaeda attack from the locality had dropped.
Delivering his first statement to Parliament on the enmity since taking office as Prime Minister, he pledged that British soldiers would not remain in Afghanistan [...]
Royal two for one: William and Harry go to Africa on first joint tour
In these seasons of austerity, it is the royal tour that gives value in the place of money: two princes for the price of one. Prince William and Prince Harry’s pilgrimage of Africa — a six-day, three-country dash that began yesterday and decision take in England’s next World Cup match in Cape Town — is [...]
Turkish aid flotilla was bringing wheelchairs, toys — and hope
For the family of Gaza the most precious commodity on board the Turkish flotilla stormed ~ dint of. Israel last month was not electric wheelchairs or children’s toys or healing art: it was hope.
On the surface, Gaza appears relatively unscathed by more than three years of air strikes, invasions and blockade. There are bullet holes [...]
World Cup footballers Messi and Ronaldo join roar for ban on ‘deafening’ vuvuzela
Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi joined calls ~ dint of. broadcasters and fans to ban the vuvuzela at the World Cup being of the kind which British supermarkets reported selling one of the plastic horns every couple seconds.
English football authorities appeared powerless to stop their spread to the household game, though the leading maker offered [...]
The world can wait as Gordon Brown finds his focus again at home in Fife
HE HAS been involved in political economy at the highest level, entertaining presidents and thrashing out deals amid finance ministers from across the globe.
But now, Gordon Brown’s life appears to be obliged gained a new focus as he revealed local issues in his Fife constituency be obliged been his main concern since he left [...]