Embattled BP chief Tony Hayward is planning to step down within a matter of weeks, a London-based newspaper reports.

Approved pot growers in New Mexico are struggling to keep up with demand from the 2000 registered medical marijuana patients.

The US government allowed BP to keep the cap shut on its oil well for another day despite news the well is leaking.

A top drug gang enforcer says he ordered the killing of a US consulate worker because she helped provide visas to a rival gang.

BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offers of help and making little use of volunteers

Mexican musicians who perform songs about drug barons have become the targets of rival drug gangs.

There are set to be big winners and losers in the rankings after the Fifa World Cup if early upsets continue.

BP is done and dusted in the US, for a generation at least.

JOHANNESBURG - Mexico's main doubt going into Friday's World Cup opener against host South Africa is the identity of its striker. Will it be veteran Guillermo Franco or youthful Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez?

Oil giant ExxonMobil says new rules to curb drilling should be held off until the lessons from the Gulf of Mexico disaster are fully understood.

Did the banks give F&P a rough ride?

The producer of two of America's top reality television programmes is facing extradition to Mexico after prosecutors filed charges accusing him of murdering his wife.