Shell Oil said 70 percent of its company-branded stations were open in Beaumont and Houston, while Valero Energy kept running 109 stations. At least 60 percent of Chevron's pump stations in the region also reopened.

The events of the last few days have made it clear that we must take further bold and decisive action to shore up confidence in our financial markets and avoid a deepening economic crisis that could jeopardize the life savings

Saying the crisis is "a pivotal moment for the American economy," the President called for a halt to what his spokesperson has said was "fingerpointing" by lawmakers and officials about who caused the worst credit crisis since the Great Depression.

Flow: For Love of Water" highlights the fact that one sixth of the world's population lacks access to clean drinking water, a problem that results in more than 2 million people, primarily children, being killed by water-borne diseases each year.

It's time to be patriotic," Biden said on Thursday on the question of tax hikes for the wealthy on ABC's 'Good Morning America.' "Time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help America out of

Gates traded places with Warren Buffett, who landed on the second place, after his shares in Berkshire Hathaway slipped 15 percent since February. Buffett's net worth is down to $38 billion.

Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) wrote to AIG CEO Edward Liddy and Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld asking for communications including e-mail messages transmitted to and from their office, as well as from all of their board memers for the

Its plane towing equipment uses bio-diesel fuel which discharges lesser carbon dioxide and makes lesser noise compared to jet engineers. If a Boeing 747 plane taxis on its own engine power for 30 minutes it will use 184 gallons of

From this moment on, the past is the past and we as a community, as a city, and as a region are moving forward. This is our time to breathe life back into the city," Cockrel said during a remarks

With the consortium of business men deciding not to bail the national airline out, pressure is mounting on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to step in to save what has been Italy's flagship airline for the past six decades. Alitalia

BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 18 -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has stacked the judicial system with supporters, weakened government institutions and demonized the opposition, debilitating democracy in that oil-rich country and violating its constitution, a leading human rights group said Thursday

Plateau State Government has dismissed 57 Directors of Finance and Supplies (DFS) and Directors of Personnel Management (DPMs) earlier suspended from the Local Government Service Commi-ssion over alleged financial misconducts.

The whole story is typically Nigerian and does not appear to be any different from the history of a country long on words but short on delivery. This is the story of the Police Equipment Fund, PEF, as told by

The petitioner did not tender a single letter of appointments of even the ANPP agents that testified as PW1, PW2 and PW3 though it was pleaded. The petitioner did not also call a single polling agent of his party who

It is with much interest that the women's network of IANSA followed the different interventions presented since the beginning of this meeting. This is an opportunity to advance the application of the Program of Action for the control of small

Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Anyim Ude, yesterday urged the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mike Okiro, to urgently beef-up security in Afikpo, Ebonyi State.

Three children aged between 10 and 17 were gunned down and two women critically injured in a bandit attack on a village in Samburu North District.

A warder has recorded a statement with the police after he was allegedly implicated in the killing of a death row convict by fellow inmates at Naivasha Maximum Security Prison.

Justice Florence Duruoha-Igwe of the Imo State judiciary, cheated death after bullets fired by suspected armed assassins into her car failed to kill her.She said the suspected assassins apparently laid ambush for her near her Abuoha, Ohii residence, Owerri West

Lands minister James Orengo has put property developers on notice over the grabbing of protected public land.