Reuters: Top Global and Breaking News

[emirate]

LONDON (Reuters) - BP's new chief executive said its rivals and the media had helped cause a climate of fear during the summer when the oil giant's blown-out Gulf of Mexico well caused the worst ever oil spill in the United States.

BP CEO slams media, rivals for stoking spill fears

[emirate]

NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - Delegates at a global U.N. meeting to preserve natural resources moved closer on Tuesday to agreeing ways to set aside about $4 billion to help developing nations save tropical forests, as studies highlighted the plight of nature.

Forestry takes center-stage at U.N. talks on nature

[emirate]

BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States has dropped out of the "top 20" in a global league table of least corrupt nations, tarnished by financial scandals and the influence of money in politics, Transparency International said on Tuesday.

U.S. slips to historic low in global corruption index

[emirate]

LONDON (Reuters) - The chairman of British Airways has criticized airport checks as "completely redundant" and said Britain should stop "kowtowing" to U.S. demands for increased security, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

UK airline chief criticizes U.S. security demands

[emirate]

BEIJING (Reuters) - Two Chinese nationals have been arrested in Hungary and are awaiting extradition to the United States, where they face charges of seeking to buy microchips banned from export to China, state media said on Wednesday.

Two Chinese face trial in U.S. on microchip charges

[emirate]

DELAWARE COUNTY, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Jim Schneller is not the type of congressional candidate a political progressive or liberal Democrat would ordinarily support.

Special report: Tea Party candidates only a Democrat could love

[emirate]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The board of bailed-out insurer American International Group on Wednesday said Chairman Steve Miller would become interim chief executive if CEO Bob Benmosche is sidelined by his cancer treatment.

AIG sets contingency plans for CEO Benmosche

[emirate]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For lifelong Republican Joe Errigo, deciding to cross party lines and support a liberal Democrat for New York governor wasn't nearly as difficult as one might expect.

Tea Party-backed Republicans spur party switches

[emirate]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week to a three-month low but the underlying trend still points to labor market stagnation.

Jobless claims fall to three-month low

[emirate]

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida Democrat running a distant third in the state's three-way U.S. Senate race vowed on Thursday to stay in the contest and denied that former U.S. President Bill Clinton asked him to withdraw.

Florida Senate candidate denies he was asked to quit