David Miliband claims his brother Ed was in the same position over Iraq as all the other candidates save Diane Abbott. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The decision to join the US in fighting the Iraq war became the focus today of the most bitter exchanges yet between the two Miliband brothers in their rival campaigns [...]

Workers in Alabama tackle the Gulf oil spill. BP’s Tony Hayward today praised the company’s ‘unprecedented response’ Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images BP formally confirmed today that it had axed its boss Tony Hayward in an attempt to appease mounting anger in the US but risked undermining the move by insisting it had been a “model [...]

Tom Cruise, star of the sci-fi classic Minority Report, about a detective working to predict and pre-empt crimes. Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage Two British police forces have begun trials of a sophisticated computer software package which aims to boost their efficiency by predicting where and when future crimes will take place. The system, known as Crush [...]

Transocean is under scrutiny after it emerged that Deepwater Horizon’s safety systems were off when it exploded. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP Vital warning systems on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig were switched off at the time of the explosion in order to spare workers being woken by false alarms, a federal investigation has heard. The revelation [...]