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could decide how much more money BP PLC and its partners on the ill-fated drilling project owe for their roles in the environmental catastrophe.
• BP has said it already has racked up more than $24 billion in spill-related expenses and has estimated it will pay a total of $42 billion to fully resolve its liability for the disaster that killed 11 workers and spewed millions of gallons of oil.
• But the trial attorneys for the federal government and Gulf states and private plaintiffs hope to convince the judge that the company is liable for much more.
• With billions of dollars on the line, the companies and their courtroom adversaries have spared no expense in preparing for a trial that could last several months. Hundreds of attorneys have worked on the case, generating roughly 90 million pages of documents, logging nearly 9,000 docket entries and taking more than 300 depositions of witnesses who could testify at trial.
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In Cuba, led by Fidel and Raul Castro for 54 years, 2018 date is given for new leadership
• HAVANA (AP) -- It's been more than 54 years since someone not named "Castro" led Cuba, and it will likely be five more.
• But now islanders and exiles alike have finally been given a date for when the sun will set on brothers Fidel and Raul's longtime rule: 2018.
• In accepting a new presidential term on Sunday, the 81-year-old Raul Castro announced that it would be his last. And for the first time, he tapped a rising young star, Miguel Diaz-Canel, to be his top lieutenant and possible successor.
• "This will be my last term," Castro said, his voice firm.
• Castro also said he hopes to establish two-term limits and age caps for political offices including the presidency, though he didn't specify what age.
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Sense or censorship? Iceland's proposed ban on pornography divides opinion
• REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- In the age of instant information, globe-spanning viral videos and the World Wide Web, can a thoroughly wired country become a porn-free zone? Authorities in Iceland want to find out.
• The government of the tiny North Atlantic nation is drafting plans to ban pornography, in print and online, in an attempt to protect children from a tide of violent sexual imagery.
• The proposal by Interior Minister Ogmundur Jonasson has caused an uproar. (Continued on page 24)
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