AP - BP's broken well was leaking oil and gas again Monday for the first time since the company capped it last week, but the Obama administration's spill chief said it was no cause for alarm. The stopper was left in plac for now.
Reuters - Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday it would recall 270,000 of its luxury Lexus models and Toyota Crown sedans for the chance that faulty valve springs may cause engine stalling.
AP - Relishing the chance to defend himself before a judge, former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega blamed a "conspiracy" against him for French money-laundering charges that landed him in a Paris court after 20 years in a U.S. jail.
AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's daylong tour of Silicon Valley Wednesday started with a "tweet" — his first — and ended with a declaration of optimism that his country also would be able to adopt a high-tech economy that would give everyone a chance to succeed.
AP - In the chaotic days after the oil rig explosion, BP engineers and federal regulators desperate to plug the blown-out well scrambled to complete plans for a pair of deepwater relief wells that represent the best chance to end the disastrous spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Reuters - Slovak center-right opposition parties won a parliamentary majority in Slovakia's election on Saturday, exit polls showed, giving them a chance to replace leftist Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Reuters - There is a good chance that a sweeping U.S. financial reform bill will be passed in a "reasonable form," White House economic adviser Paul Volcker said on Wednesday, adding the bill could provide a basis for international coordination on coherent legislation.

