CADEREYTA, Mexico (Reuters) - An explosion ripped through a major Mexican refinery on Tuesday, killing one worker and pushing gasoline and diesel prices higher on worries state oil monopoly Pemex will have to import more fuel. Pemex, the world's No. 7 crude producer and a large fuel importer, said ...

The BP probe, which will be released on Wednesday, is one of many launched after the blowout led to an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that killed 11 men and caused the worst offshore oil spill in history. The Journal said the report would explain why engineers missed key signs ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co sued former Chief Executive Mark Hurd and asked a court to block him from joining Oracle Corp, saying his hiring by the rival technology firm puts HP's trade secrets "in peril." Oracle, the world's third-largest software maker, named Hurd ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in Congress showed little willingness to help President Barack Obama approve $350 billion in measures to boost the economy with midterm elections less than two months away. Obama's plans for billions of dollars in tax breaks for businesses are policies ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - An Alabama judge said on Tuesday he would appoint a receiver to oversee the sewer system revenues of debt-ridden Jefferson County, in a setback for county authorities. The Bank of New York Mellon, trustee for the county's creditor banks, won its request for the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge refused on Tuesday to lift a ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research despite Obama administration warnings it would set back key research and cost more than a thousand jobs. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth rejected the Obama ...

Reid, speaking at an alternative energy conference he hosts annually in Las Vegas, also said he had at least one Republican senator ready to vote for a small business jobs bill when Congress returns to work next week. Democrats have been focused on freeing up credit and giving tax breaks to small ...

Google announced in July that it was buying ITA Software, one of the Web's key providers of airline travel software, for $700 million. The concern is that Google could create a travel website, with ITA at its heart, and then use its dominance of search to steer potential travelers to its site ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp investors cheered the surprise hiring of former Hewlett-Packard Co Chief Executive Mark Hurd on Tuesday, sending the business software company's stock up sharply after the latest twist in a juicy drama that has captivated Silicon Valley. Hurd's talent for ...

ETA's announcement on Sunday of another truce, without announcing its permanent disarmament, has disappointed all Spain's democratic political parties, he said at a news conference. "(ETA's) announcements are worth nothing, only their decisions -- and only one decision ... to lay down their ...