The company which leased the Deepwater Horizon rig to oil giant BP has been fined $1.4bn (€1.06bn) after admitting its role in the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

An apparently insignificant money-laundering case taken against several Colombian men became one of the most important leads for US investigators pursuing a case against an international banking group, write Carrick Mollenkamp and Brett Wolf

Sandy Berger, former President Bill Clinton’s national security adviser, is under criminal investigation after highly classified terrorism documents disappeared while he was reviewing what should be turned over to the commission probing the September 11 attacks

A former US national security adviser to President Clinton is under criminal investigation by the US Justice Department after documents disappeared while he was reviewing what should be turned over to the 9/11 commission.