A monitor looking at Apple’s anti-monopoly policies can resume his work but must stick to strict limits spelled out by the judge who appointed him, an appeal court panel has said.

The oil industry and the government need to do more to reduce the chances of another large-scale oil spill, a US presidential panel investigating the BP well blow-out said today.

BP engineers began pumping heavy drilling mud into the blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well in what they believe is their best yet chance to snuff out for good one of the world’s largest spills.