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Facing the constant threat of ambushes, suicide bombers, improvised explosive devices and kidnappers, former Scottsdale, Arizona, Police Chief Michael Heidingsfield travels to police stations and training camps around Iraq - an itinerary, according to one of his top aides, that is more difficult now than it was when he arrived six months ago.

 
Julia Guarniz, a street vendor in the Peruvian highland village of 
Choropampa, watches blankly as a seven-vehicle convoy thunders past. "They scare 
me," she says, pointing at the "hazardous materials" signs on the sides of the 

U.S. troops, journalists and contractors returning from Iraq are among those who have been caught with forbidden souvenirs -- mostly paintings and small seals and cylinders that can be carved exquisitely and hidden easily.

Telephone and cable
companies want to dominate Internet connections to the home. If they
get state legislatures to help them block competition, like they just
did in Pennsylvania, these companies would no longer have an important
incentive to build their networks to connect the underserved.

With their newly opened pipeline, British Petroleum (BP) is cutting a path of environmental and social irresponsibility from the Caspian to the Mediterranean.

Wachovia Corporation has apologized for its ties to slavery after disclosing that two of its historical predecessors owned slaves and accepted them as payment.

Public expectations of companies are rising everywhere - but consumers' top concerns vary substantially between countries and regions, according to a new study by GlobeScan, an international opinion research company.

A major hiccup on government's effort to terminate gas flaring by 2008 has occured as oil multinational, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) said the official deadline will no longer be realistic to the firm.

Union officials have said they expressed concerns about the location of the trailer as well as BP's use of the vent stack as opposed to a flare system. Had a flare been in place, the excess liquid and vapors likely would have been burned off and the accident may have been prevented.

 A Russian court convicted Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky,
the embattled tycoon and founder of the Yukos oil company, of criminal
charges today and sentenced him to nine years in a prison camp,
bringing to an end the most closely watched trial in Russia since the
Soviet Union collapsed.