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Police release CCTV images in London riots probe
Dec 14, 2011 05:05 EST
Police investigating the riots that swept London in August have posted photos of more than 200 suspects online in an effort to bring those involved in the disorder to justice.
Police unsure of tabloid role in key UK hacking case
Dec 12, 2011 18:13 EST
LONDON (Reuters) - British police said on Monday there was no evidence that journalists from Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid had deleted a murdered schoolgirl's mobile phone messages, a claim that led to public revulsion and the closure of the paper.
Police unsure of tabloid role in key UK hacking case
Dec 12, 2011 18:13 EST
LONDON (Reuters) - British police said on Monday there was no evidence that journalists from Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid had deleted a murdered schoolgirl's mobile phone messages, a claim that led to public revulsion and the closure of the paper.
Observers say DR Congo vote results 'lack credibility'
Dec 10, 2011 22:01 EST
The Democratic Republic of Congo's tense election standoff intensified Sunday after a team of international observers reported that incumbent Joseph Kabila's win was so flawed it lacked credibility.
London police arrest 143 at DR Congo vote protest
Dec 10, 2011 17:51 EST
Police in London said they arrested 143 people on Saturday during an angry demonstration by up to 500 people against the re-election of President Joseph Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Murdoch paper's hacking victims total 800: police
Dec 10, 2011 14:12 EST
The police said Saturday the final number of victims of phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World will be around 800 people, far fewer than originally thought.
UK private eye bailed after hacking arrest: reports
Dec 07, 2011 18:49 EST
A private investigator who was previously jailed for his role in phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World was bailed Wednesday after police probing the scandal detained him earlier in the day.
Glenn Mulcaire 'arrested in hacking probe'
Dec 07, 2011 09:32 EST
Police probing phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World arrested a private investigator on Thursday who was previously jailed for his role in the scandal, according to news reports.
Ex-Albanian intelligence chief on run in Britain
Dec 07, 2011 07:45 EST
A former Albanian intelligence chief is on the run after failing to attend an extradition hearing in Britain over charges of torture and kidnap in his homeland, Scotland Yard said on Wednesday.
Man arrested over phone hacking
Dec 07, 2011 03:44 EST
Police investigating the phone-hacking scandal that led to the closure of the News of the World arrested a 41-year-old man on Thursday, Scotland Yard said.
DR Congo postpones announcing election winner
Dec 06, 2011 18:19 EST
The Democratic Republic of Congo's election commission postponed Tuesday declaring the winner of polls amid fears the result could lead to new violence as protests exploded worldwide.
DR Congo protesters clash with police in London
Dec 06, 2011 14:17 EST
Hundreds of demonstrators opposing DR Congo President Joseph Kabila clashed with police as they protested outside the residence of Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday.
John Terry racism file handed to prosecutors
Dec 01, 2011 11:39 EST
British prosecutors have received a police file on Chelsea and England football captain John Terry regarding claims he racially abused Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand.
Protesters storm London HQ of mining giant Xstrata
Nov 30, 2011 12:18 EST
Demonstrators from the Occupy London anti-capitalist movement stormed a building housing the diversified Anglo-Swiss mining giant Xstrata on Wednesday, police and protesters said.
Alistair Campbell slams 'putrid' press
Nov 30, 2011 09:39 EST
Alistair Campbell, media chief to former prime minister Tony Blair, told the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics on Wednesday that the country's newspapers were "putrid" and that a member of Blair's inner circle had her phone hacked.
J. K. Rowling says tabloids targeted her children
Nov 24, 2011 15:04 EST
Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling lambasted Britain's press Thursday for invading her children's privacy, telling an inquiry that a journalist even slipped a letter into her daughter's schoolbag.
Sienna Miller says paper hacked her emails
Nov 24, 2011 10:10 EST
Actress Sienna Miller told an inquiry Thursday her emails and phones were hacked by the News of the World as part of a "web of surveillance" that led her to make paranoid accusations against her friends.
No armed foreign security at Games, says Met chief
Nov 22, 2011 15:05 EST
There willl be no armed security officers from foreign governments at next year's London Olympics, according to a senior officer in the capital's Metropolitan Police.
No conclusions in riots shooting: probe
Nov 19, 2011 19:23 EST
The probe into the police shooting of a man which triggered the riots in August has yet to establish fully the circumstances of his death, investigators said Saturday.
Signs of broader hacking at Murdoch newspaper
Nov 15, 2011 11:08 EST
LONDON (Reuters) - Evidence is growing that hacking of both telephone voice mail and email was pursued by journalists from Rupert Murdoch's News of the World for years after the arrests of a private detective and reporter who worked for the weekly tabloid.
