BBC: Oil giant BP is to put $20bn (£13.5bn) in a compensation fund for victims of the Gulf oil spill and will not pay shareholders a dividend this year. Barack Obama announced the compensation deal after talks at the White House with senior BP executives. Shortly afterwards, BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said dividends would not be paid for the rest of this year. The payout fund is to be run by Kenneth Feinberg, a lawyer who oversaw compensation after the 9/11 …