Shares in BP rose for the fourth day in a row as the oil giant said it could “kill” the Gulf of Mexico leak earlier than expected by the end
of the month... more
Judi Dench is reprising her role as the queen of the fairies, with Peter Hall sprinkling the magic dust on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.... more
Although the paying punters want nothing to do with him, controversial businessman Alisher Usmanov - one of Russia's few remaining billionaires - owns 25% of Arsenal's shares ... more
BP and its Russian partners at the BP-TNK joint venture launched a chief executive selection process straight out of Sir Alan Sugar's TV series The Apprentice... more
Energy: An end could be in sight to the fractious and potentially highly damaging dispute over BP’s huge interests in Russia — but at the cost of the departure of the chief executive at its Russian joint venture... more
BP has turned in strong second-quarter results which will inevitably prompt cries of profiteering, even though most of the gains do not come from selling petrol at the pump... more
BP takes action to remove the remaining 60 technical specialists it employs in Russia, conceding further ground to partner TNK over the future of their joint venture... more
TNK-BP boss Robert Dudley has had a 10-day reprieve in the visa row that could yet shake the world's perception of how western businessfriendly the new Kremlin regime is... more
Attempts to oust BP from Russia have taken a sinister, official twist, as the Russian authorities ordered the refusal of work permits for overseas executives in the TNK-BP joint venture... more
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