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It has been reported that an oil slick in the Gulf Mexico has come with 20 miles of the coastline and Coast Guard officials said Tuesday they are considering setting the slick on fire.

Officials have said that the slick resulted from last week's oil rig explosion near Louisiana, which left 11 workers missing and presumably dead. Oil was leaking from a Deepwater Horizon well in the gulf, 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, at a rate of 42,000 gallons a day.

Coast Guard officials have said that the slick threatens environmentally sensitive areas in the Mississippi River Delta.

Officials have said that a Delta Air Lines Paris-to-Atlanta flight was diverted to Bangor, Maine, Tuesday after a passenger claimed he had explosives on board.

CNN has reported that Flight 273, carrying 235 passengers and a crew of 13 on an Airbus A330, landed in Maine at about 3:30 p. m. Federal air marshals took the man into custody but investigators found no explosives.

The man, who claimed he had false documents, was being questioned, Delta spokeswoman Susan Elliott said.

School officials have said that a Canadian university is struggling with an overabundance of rabbits, which are wreaking havoc on the campus grounds and vegetation.

The Victoria Times Colonist reported on Tuesday that the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, has been dealing with save-the-bunnies groups while dealing with the costly damage from the 1,500 to 2,000 rabbits on campus.

According to the media reports, Israeli soldiers on Tuesday demolished 10 buildings that were erected in the West Bank in defiance of a freeze on settlement expansion.

Haaretz reported that teenagers in the settlements protested the demolition by refusing to leave the buildings. Two people were arrested after burning tires were thrown at the troops.

A second attempt to move along legislation that would reform the U. S. financial system failed in the Senate Tuesday on a 57-41 vote, media reports have revealed.

It was reported that once again, a vote to start formal debate on the bill fell three votes shy of the necessary 60 votes to avoid a filibuster. A vote to advance the bill failed Monday by the same 57-41 vote with all Republicans present voting against ending cloture to allow formal debate to begin. On both days, Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., joined Republicans.

The net profit of India's leading mobile service provider, Bharti Airtel, declined by 8% to Rs 2,055 crore for the three month period ended March 31, 2010 as against Rs 2,239 crore during the same period of 2009.

Tough rivalry among subsisting and fresh entrants has seen players cut call rates and launch plans like per second billing, which has eaten into the gross profits of telecommunication companies across the industry.

But, the company's total revenues in January-March quarter increased by just 2% Rs 10,055.7 crore.