NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks rose slightly Wednesday as investors tried to brush off fresh worries about the health of European banks....

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Oil giant BP PLC laid much of the blame for the rig explosion and the massive Gulf of Mexico spill on itself, other companies' workers and a complex series of failures in an internal report released Wednesday before a key piece of evidence has been fully analyzed....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is voicing unwavering opposition to extending Bush-era tax breaks for the nation's wealthiest families even for a year or two, drawing a sharp contrast with Republicans eight weeks before the November elections....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The lead BP PLC investigator is saying that eight separate failures had to occur for the company's deepwater well to unleash the largest offshore oil spill in history....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian aviation investigators have launched a probe into the emergency landing of a passenger jet that rolled into a forest without hurting anyone....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Oracle plans to pay newly appointed President Mark Hurd a base salary of $950,000 a year. The company also says the former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO, who was ousted by that company last month, is eligible for a fiscal 2011 bonus of as much as $10 million....

TORONTO (AP) -- Canada's central bank raised interest rates on Wednesday for the third consecutive time....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The peanut industry executive whose filthy processing plants were blamed in a salmonella outbreak two years ago that killed nine people and sickened hundreds more is back in the business....

SMITHFIELD, Va. (AP) -- Smithfield Foods Inc. said Wednesday higher selling prices for pork and improvement in hog market prices helped it return to a profit in its fiscal first-quarter....

MUMBAI, India (AP) -- In a landmark ruling Wednesday, an Indian court said Vodafone Group Plc is liable for an estimated $2.6 billion in taxes for its 2007 acquisition of one of India's largest mobile phone companies....