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BP takes share of blame for Gulf oil spill (AFP)
BP report blames itself, others for oil spill (AP)
BP blames contractors for oil spill (Reuters)
2 panda cubs born in Spanish zoo (AP)
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BP takes share of blame for Gulf oil spill (AFP)
AFP - Failures by BP and other companies led to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, the energy group concluded on Wednesday as it sought to defend itself against possible multi-billion-dollar US lawsuits.
A photo released by the US Coast Guard shows fire boats battling a blaze at the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon rig off the Louisiana coastline in April 2010. Failures by BP and other companies led to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, the energy group concluded on Wednesday as it sought to defend itself against possible multi-billion-dollar US lawsuits.(AFP/US Coast Guard/File)
BP report blames itself, others for oil spill (AP)
AP - In an internal report released Wednesday, BP blames itself, other companies' workers and a complex series of failures for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the drilling rig explosion that preceded it.
A British Petroleum (BP) logo is seen  at a petrol station in south London April 27, 2010. BP deflected much of the blame for a rig blast that led to the United States' worst-ever oil spill, releasing an internal report on Wednesday which said that drilling contractor Transocean had missed danger signs. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Files
BP blames contractors for oil spill (Reuters)
Reuters - BP attempted to place much of the blame for the rig blast that led to the United States' worst-ever oil spill on its contractors, Transocean and Halliburton.
A logo is seen at a BP fuel station in London July 27, 2010. REUTERS/Toby Melville
2 panda cubs born in Spanish zoo (AP)
AP - Two newborn pandas are the latest additions to the Madrid Zoo.
This picture taken on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, and released on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010,  shows a person feeding one of the two giant panda cubs born at Madrid's Zoo on Sept. 7, 2010. An artificially inseminated female giant panda named Hua Zui Ba gave birth to the two panda cubs. (AP Photo/Spanish National Research Council)