Engineers were today preparing to test a new cap designed to stop the BP oil leak.

Engineers trying to stop the BP oil leak were delayed by a technical hitch today.

The vital relief well being drilled to halt BP’s giant Gulf of Mexico spill could be finished ahead of schedule, the company said today.

Intent on showing firm command of the deepening crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, US President Barack Obama flew to coastal Louisiana today for his second in-person update on the country’s most devastating oil spill.

A bicycle bomb killed 13 people in Afghanistan today as they gathered to get free vegetable seeds as part of a British drive to discourage opium poppy growing.

Crews are racing to save a Russian mini-submarine trapped in the remote Pacific with seven sailors on board and oxygen supplies dwindling, navy officials said today.

Russian news agencies have reported that Japan is to send four ships to help rescue seven Russian sailors trapped on a naval mini-submarine on the sea floor off the Pacific Coast.

The wreck of the Kursk nuclear submarine began moving toward a dry dock in the northern Russian port of Roslyakovo today, despite high winds that could hinder the operation.