Mr Hayward has become the public face for BP's failings - his six-hour grilling before a Senate committee on Thursday was roundly condemned when he stonewalled questions and said he could not answer 65 times. Mr Hayward will be replaced by Bobby Dudley, BP's managing director. ...read
Convicted killer Ronnie Gardner was the first person to be executed by firing squad in the U.S. for 14 years. He spent the hours before his death watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy, reading the novel Divine Justice and sleeping.
Temperatures outside the car had soared to nearly 33 degrees. Now prosecutors in Texas are considering whether to charge the mother.
Mussolini, who ruled Italy from 1922 until he was executed by partisans in 1945, has long been rumoured to have kept diaries which could detail the extent of his relationship with wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Frank Fenner has claimed that the human race will be unable to survive a population explosion and 'unbridled consumption.’
He would be able to order popular search engines such a Google and Yahoo to suspend access to their websites in times of national emergency.
Three-year-old Tatiana and Krista Hogan, from Vancouver, are so intricately entwined that they cannot be separated.
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Supporters of the LA Lakers threw rocks and bottles, and torched cars after their team’s 83-79 victory over the Boston Celtics. Within hours, violence had spread throughout the city.
They died when torrential rain sent torrents of mud pouring through towns and villages in a popular holiday area inland of the Cote d'Azur. The death toll following Tuesday's flood in the Var region is 25 - but there are fears more bodies may be found.
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Defence Secretary Robert Gates said U.S. intelligence units have reported a growing threat in Iran’s ballistic missile capability.
Captain Joshua Mantz was hit by a bullet which had passed through his staff sergeant’s arm and chest before ricocheting into the 27-year-old’s leg.
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Dee Darwell, 56, from Peterborough blacked out as first one monkey then another bit her, before she was surrounded by the entire pack.
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The 91-year-old anti-apartheid icon leaned on a walking stick as he entered the brick chapel of the Johannesburg private school Zenani Mandela had attended.
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