President Bush is deciding whether to lift a ban on oil and gas drilling in federal waters off Alaska's Bristol Bay. Some 200 million barrels of crude oil, about what the U.S. imports every 16 days, are thought to be there.(Yahoo/AP)
It could be years before a massive "mud volcano" which has forced thousands of people to flee their homes stops flowing, Indonesian Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar has said. (Yahoo/AFP)