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BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- BP's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is fueling opposition to the University of California, Berkeley's research partnership with the British company, with activists on the famously liberal campus demanding a severing of ties.

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) -- The helicopter passes over the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico -- with surprisingly little oil visible on its surface -- when out of the sea rises a skyscraper-like structure nearly 350 feet above the waves. The $600 million rig, nearly 100 miles off Louisiana's coast, has a hull larger than a football field and can drill more than 5 miles beneath the ocean floor.

THE WOODLANDS, Texas (AP) -- Huntsman Corp. said Saturday it has agreed to acquire the chemicals business of India's Laffans Petrochemicals Ltd.

BEIJING (AP) -- China is set to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy in a resurgence that is changing everything from the global balance of military and financial power to how cars are designed.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tucked into the new health care law is a requirement that could become a paperwork nightmare for nearly 40 million businesses.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is going after Senate Republicans who have stymied his proposal to create a $30 billion fund to help unfreeze lending for credit-starved small businesses.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- They're a minority, but a vocal one, and they're hovering like storm clouds over a brittle recovery.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek authorities are using military trucks and commandeered fuel trucks to restore fuel supplies cut by a strike that has hurt the country's industry and tourism at the height of vacation season.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Thousands of protesting garment workers in Bangladesh clashed with police, injuring dozens of people Saturday amid continued violence over a new minimum wage.

MUMBAI, India (AP) -- ICICI Bank, India's largest private sector bank, said quarterly profit rose 17 percent as it cut costs and eliminated bad loans amid revived credit demand in India's growing economy.

KWIDZYN, Poland (AP) -- They were bloody medieval warriors who spread Catholicism by the sword and seized Polish lands with great cruelty. But that's not stopping the Polish city of Kwidzyn from capitalizing on the aura surrounding the Teutonic Knights.









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