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News trumps celebrity in 2010 web searches

News trumped celebrities in 2010 as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and World Cup soccer in South Africa topped the list of most-searched items of 2010, according to Yahoo! It is the first time that news came up first since the tech

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BP, firms missed key errors before spill, says report

Lacking standards to weigh costs against safety, BP and its partners made critical errors leading to the largest offshore oil spill in US history, according to a scientific panel report obtained by Reuters on Tuesday. Interim findings from

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Big mental health effects seen from BP spill

The mental health impacts of the BP oil spill will dwarf those encountered after the last major oil spill off US shores, a sociologist who studied the Exxon Valdez spill told Florida volunteers. University of South Alabama researcher Steve

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Heat on BP to improve oil spill response

BP faced renewed US pressure on Sunday to do more to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, as the United States and Britain tried to avert a potentially damaging row over the crisis. The British energy giant placed a containment cap on its

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Obama, Cameron to discuss BP oil spill crisis

BP's handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is likely to dominate talks on Saturday between US President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron. The leaders will discuss the crisis against a backdrop of public anger an

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