BBC News 28 October 2010 Last updated at 20:45 ET

Aid reaches stricken tsunami islandsTsunami survivors look away as a helicopter takes off from Parorogat, Pagai island, Indonesia, 28 October 2010

Relief efforts are stepped up in Indonesia as aid deliveries reach the worst-hit parts of the island chain devastated by Monday's tsunami.

The Deepwater Horizon rig burnsCement flaws 'known before spill'

The companies drilling the BP Gulf of Mexico oil well had test results showing cement used to seal it before the blowout was unstable, US investigators find.

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