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  • BP Chief Draws Outrage for Attending Yacht Race

    BP officials on Saturday scrambled yet again to respond to another public relations challenge when their embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, spent the day off the coast of England watching his yacht compete in one of the world’s largest races.

    Two days after Mr. Hayward angered lawmakers on Capitol Hill with his refusal to provide details during testimony about the worst offshore oil spill in United States history, and one day after BP’s chairman said the chief executive would not be as involved in daily operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Mr. Hayward sparked new controversy from afar.

    “He is having some rare private time with his son,” a BP spokeswoman, Sheila Williams, said in a telephone interview on Saturday.

    But Rahm Emanuel,

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  • Turkey looks east and makes waves

    The Muslim nation is in NATO and a candidate to join the European Union. But it's busy making inroads to the east, a region looking for and suspicious of fresh leadership.

    Turkey has long been a map of possibility — its eastern fringes touching Iraq and its western borders brushing Europe, a place where the music of Beethoven played amid the call to prayer.

    This predominantly Muslim nation is a member of NATO and a candidate, although an unwelcome one, to join the European Union. But Turkey is peering east, dispatching financial brokers, pistachio merchants and diplomats across a restless region that is both looking for and suspicious of any gleam of fresh leadership.

    By default and through its own designs, Turkey has gained stature in a Middle East where old Arab powers are fading and gulf states are preoccupied with the global financial crisis and the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strengthened relations with former enemy Syria, improved ties with Iran and, to the agitation of Egypt, arisen as a provocative Muslim voice for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

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  • Cleanups of Spill and an Agency Test Salazar

    When President Obama boasted in his televised address on Tuesday about his team of leaders fighting the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he spoke glowingly of his energy secretary, his Coast Guard commander, even his Navy secretary.

    Then he turned to Ken Salazar, his interior secretary. “When Ken Salazar became my secretary of the interior, one of his very first acts was to clean up the worst of the corruption at this agency,” Mr. Obama said, referring to Mr. Salazar’s oversight of the Minerals Management Service, the agency responsible for regulating offshore drilling. “But it’s now clear that the problem there ran much deeper, and the pace of reform was just too slow.”

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  • Workers At Idled Toyota Tianjin Auto Plant To Return Monday

    Toyota Motor Corp. (TM, 7203.TO) said Sunday that it will resume operations at an auto assembly plant in China starting Monday as a strike at a local parts plant was settled Saturday amid labor disputes spreading at automobile factories in the world's biggest auto market.

    The Japanese car maker will restart operations at its car plant in Tianjin after a shortage of certain plastic interior parts from the parts producer, where workers walked off the job Thursday, started disrupting operations at the car plant Thursday night, a Toyota spokesman said. All three production lines at the Tianjin auto plant were idled by Friday afternoon.

    Toyota halted production temporarily at a crucial time for the auto maker, which saw a relatively moderate growth in sales in China of 21% to 700,900 vehicles last year compared to a nearly 50% surge in the country's overall market to about 13 million vehicles.

    The auto plant in Tianjin is one of Toyota's largest in China, with an annual production capacity of 400,000 vehicles.

    Labour disputes over pay are spreading in China in the auto and some other industrial sectors.

    Among the companies recently hit by strikes in China, Honda Motor Co. (HMC, 7267.TO) is facing a string of disputes at auto parts factories that pushed Honda to suspend temporarily its auto assembly production from late last month to early this month.

    Toyota was forced to halt auto production as it was unable to procure sufficient parts from one of Toyoda Gosei Co.'s joint auto parts production ventures due to the strike. Toyota owns a 42 % stake in Toyota Gosei. The venture is called Tianjin Toyoda Gosei Co..

    Toyoda Gosei wasn't immediately available for comment.

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  • As oil spews in Gulf, BP chief at UK yacht race




    LONDON – BP chief executive Tony Hayward, often criticized for being tone-deaf to American concerns about the worst oil spill in U.S. history, took time off Saturday to attend a glitzy yacht race off England's Isle of Wight.

    Spokeswoman Sheila Williams said Hayward took a break from overseeing BP efforts to stem the undersea gusher in Gulf of Mexico to watch his boat "Bob" participate in the J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race.

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  • Crystal Bowersox Up To The Mountain Will Answered Who Will Win American Idol 2010



    Crystal Bowersox Up To The Mountain Will Answered Who Will Win American Idol 2010 on Trends Hot Topics --- "Crystal Bowersox Up To The Mountain" yeah... Crystal Bowersox Up To The Mountain is the hot trends topics on search engine. Last performance on American Idol Crystal Bowersox sing "Up to The Mountain". Up to The Mountain is the sing that written by Patty Griffin.

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  • Brian Cushing Suspended Games Of The Season | The NFL's Steroid Policy



    Brian Cushing Suspended Games Of The Season | The NFL's Steroid Policy on Trends Hot Topics --- Brian Cushing Suspended Games Of The Season | The NFL's Steroid Policy. Bad news for those of you who enjoyed the fact that young stud linebacker Brian Cushing. Brian Cushing will miss the first four games of the season for violating the NFL's steroid policy.

    Yeah..Brian Cushing has been suspended the first four games of the season for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs. Texans GM Rick Smith says the Texans are "disappointed" with the events. That Cushing appealed the decision probably means that he'll deny any wrongdoing. So he'll have that in common with everyone else in sports ever nailed for performance-enhancers.

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  • Proctor & Gamble Correcting Stock Market Today on Index Dow Jones



    Proctor & Gamble Correcting Stock Market Today on Index Dow Jones on Trends Hot Topics --- Proctor & Gamble Correcting Stock Market Today on Index Dow Jones. There were no erroneous trades on shares of Procter & Gamble or in any other shares at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, said Eric Ryan, a spokesman for the exchange. Proctor & Gamble (P&G) today dismissed overwhelmingly the claim that its Dry Max Pampers can cause rash and other skin irritations. The company said that it has been a subject of wrong reporting from the social media.

    Because of few parents reporting against newly-launched Dry Max Pampers, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission earlier had said it would launch a probe into the new diapers. These diapers are made with a thinner, more absorbent material. P&G had called this newly-launched diaper as their biggest innovation in 25 years.

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  • Elizabeth Hasselbeck Crying Apologizes to Erin Sanders







    Elizabeth Hasselbeck Crying Apologizes to Erin Sanders on Trends Hot Topics --- Elizabeth Hasselbeck Crying Apologizes to Erin Sanders. Hasselbeck apologizes to Erin Andrews San Jose Mercury News Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Elisabeth Hasselbeck was crying on "The View" Wednesday, and not because she saw Tuesday's heartbreaking episode of "Lost." Hasselbeck, who spoke tactlessly of Erin Andrews' costumes on "Dancing with the Stars" on Tuesday's.

    Hasselbeck, who spoke tactlessly of Erin Andrews' costumes on "Dancing with the Stars" on Tuesday's "View," tearfully apologized on air Wednesday to the beleaguered ESPN reporter. A stalker filmed a naked Andrews last year through a hotel room peephole. Hasselbeck snarked Tuesday that the man, since convicted, would have seen "a little bit less — without the prison time" just by watching "Dancing" this season.

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  • Nick Rogers Died On Car Accident | The Former NFL Linebacker



    Nick Rogers Died On Car Accident | The Former NFL Linebacker on Trends Hot Topics --- Nick Rogers Died On Car Accident | The Former NFL Linebacker. Nick Rogers, One of the former linebacker has died caused by car accident. The Fulton County Medical Examiner's office says Rogers was killed about 1:30 a.m. Monday when his car hit a utility pole in College Park, near Atlanta. Nick Rogers was only 30 years old at the time of his death which happened in suburban Atlanta.

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