March 5, 2012

After a yearlong oil drilling moratorium, BP and other companies have intensified exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico, and drilling will soon expand to Mexican and Cuban waters.

One benefit of an attack by a group like Anonymous: it can gird a company against more serious online espionage.

Viewers who watch prime-time television days later are becoming an essential factor in determining a show’s popularity.

With diversions like e-mail, Twitter, YouTube and games a few taps away, the book-reading experience on a tablet is more like a 21st-century cacophony than a traditional solitary activity.

Rory McIlroy, 22, won the Honda Classic and became the youngest golfer to claim the No. 1 ranking since Tiger Woods in 1997.

Investors have been cheering the possibility that the negative news in Britain could prompt the company to spin off its newspapers.

Ambitious development plans for the 2016 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2014 soccer World Cup, involve large-scale evictions from numerous slums, whose residents are refusing to leave.

Nina Raine’s play “Tribes” concerns a family whose deaf son brings home his girlfriend, who is losing her hearing.

Wartburg College in Iowa and Augsburg College in Minnesota have won every Division III wrestling title since 1995. Their rivalry is at once hostile and hospitable.

Despite an apology on Saturday, Rush Limbaugh is facing a loss of advertisers unnerved by growing criticism of his comments about a Georgetown University student last week.

In an effort to show its benefit to the American job market, Apple on Friday published the results of a study it commissioned saying that it had “created or supported” 514,000 American jobs.

Two leading fiscal conservatives, Representative Eric Cantor and Senator Tom Coburn, declared their loyalties for the first time on Sunday, with John Ashcroft set to join the team Monday.