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?

BP says it has made progress in quelling the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico but the US says the leak rate may have been five times greater than feared.

Last year, 76 per cent of British adults surveyed said they thought it was appropriate to run advertisements offering help for those dealing with unplanned pregnancies.

Computer models show the black ooze in the Gulf of Mexico may have already entered a major current flowing towards Florida and the Atlantic Ocean.

Obama has pledged to end the "cosy relationship" between the oil industry and federal regulators.

Top executives from BP and two other firms involved in the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico came under fire at a US Senate hearing.

A corn infection that US farmers have spent millions trying to eradicate, is in fact packed with unique proteins, minerals and other nutritional goodies, tests have found.

The new king of the rich list is well-known in his native Mexico, which some wags dub 'Slimlandia'. And now his low profile abroad is about to go sky high.

Narcotraficantes, or drug dealers, can buy the murder of many, and the loyalty of nearly everyone.

A 5m-long great white shark approaches a cage of divers off the Coast of Mexico. See the photo gallery to find out what happened next.

All Whites coach Ricki Herbert has learned more about his World Cup squad.