Lamar McKay, President and Chairman of BP America, Inc., left, and BP's top lobbyist David Nagel, pause before a House subcommittee hearing into the Gulf Coast oil spill, Wednesday, May 12, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - Bad wiring and a leak in what's supposed to be a "blowout preventer." Sealing problems that may have allowed a methane eruption. Even a dead battery, of all things.


This NASA image captured May 10, shows a close up view of a massive oil slick (R) in the Gulf of Mexico as it continued moving perilously close to shore, near Louisiana. Top oil executives are braced for a second day of grilling by angry lawmakers over their failure to prevent a giant slick threatening environmental and economic calamity.(AFP/NASA)Reuters - Top oil executives face a second day of grilling by U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday over a deadly well rupture that unleashed a huge oil slick and the specter of environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.


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Members of the Louisiana National Guard prepare to hook a sandbag to the belly of a Blackhawk helicopter in Port Fourchon, La., Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Helicopters are dropping sandbags at the mouths of marshes along Port Fourchon and nearby Grand Isle to keep oil from being carried inland with tides. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Congress called BP and its drilling partners to account Tuesday for a "cascade of failures" behind the spreading Gulf oil spill, zeroing in on a crucial chain of events at the deep-sea wellhead just before an explosion consumed the rig and set off the catastrophic rupture.


TOKYO/DETROIT (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co said it would recall another 438,000 cars globally to replace an airbag deflator that could rupture and send shards toward the driver in an accident.
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Chinese workers of the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) take a lunch break at the site of the new African Union (AU) conference center in Addis Ababa. India has stepped up its efforts to gain an economic foothold in Africa in a new scramble with China for the continent's resources, signing energy deals with top oil producers Angola and Nigeria.(AFP/Simon Maina)AP - The main militant group in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta says they were not involved in the rupture of an important Royal Dutch Shell PLC pipeline.