BP oil spill bill tops $8 billion
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First steps
Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas have spent several hours meeting alone in the first day of direct talks in Washington.
Violent eruption
An Indonesian volcano has spewed ash thousands of metres into the air in its most violent eruption in 400 years.
Police corruption
Corrupt Indonesian police provided weapons used by a terrorist cell funded by radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, prosecutors claim.
Another rig burns
The US Coast Guard says there is no sign of an oil slick after another oil platform explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
Remains recovered
The remains of the four people killed in Tuesday's plane crash in PNG have been recovered from the crash site.
Recriminations fly
Former British PM Tony Blair has used his memoirs to criticise his successor Gordon Brown, branding him a "strange guy" whose time in Number 10 was a disaster.
'Turning the page'
Barack Obama declares an end to the seven-year US combat mission in Iraq and says his priority is now rebuilding America's economy.
Begging for forgiveness
The owners of a Chilean mine which collapsed early this month, trapping 33 men underground, have asked forgiveness for the accident.
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