The Other Side of Life 24/7: Morning Digest: BP, Rosneft set up $25 billion-plus TNK-BP deal

10/22/2012

BP, Rosneft set up $25 billion-plus TNK-BP deal

LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rosneft and BP are preparing to announce a deal worth over $25 billion that could give the British oil company a stake of between 16 and 20 percent in the state-controlled Russian energy firm, sources familiar with the situation said..

Gunbattles flare in Lebanon as political crisis deepens

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese troops and gunmen exchanged fire in Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday, wounding five people, deepening a political crisis following the assassination of a senior intelligence official, security and medical sources said.

Stock index futures edge higher, earnings in focus

LONDON (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a slightly higher open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 rising 0.3 to 0.4 percent..

'Paranormal Activity 4' haunts top of movie charts

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The fourth "Paranormal Activity" fright flick crept into the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $30.2 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales..

Bryan twins top of the world for record eighth time

(Reuters) - American twins Bob and Mike Bryan will end the tennis season on top of the world for a record eighth time, the sport's governing body said on Monday..

Britain turns to "X-Box" generation code-breakers

LONDON (Reuters) - At the secluded country house where the country's top computer scientists cracked the "unbreakable" Nazi Enigma code, a key factor in victory in World War Two, Britain has begun a hunt to find new cyber spies from the "X-Box" generation..

Threatened species listing for polar bears contested in U.S. court

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Polar bears' designation as a threatened species was challenged in a U.S. appeals court on Friday, with a lawyer for Alaska and other parties arguing that regulators had failed to back up the listing..

Morocco denies pagan rock carving destroyed

RABAT (Reuters) - The Moroccan government has denied that an 8,000-year-old rock engraving depicting the Sun as a divinity has been destroyed in the south of the country in an attack residents had blamed on ultra-orthodox Salafi Muslims..