Mark Hughes

Full coverage of the News of the World phone hacking scandal, after James Murdoch appears for the second time before the Select Committee

Two police officers may have caused cross-contamination of evidence in the case of Stephen Lawrence by visiting his home repeatedly before taking part in raids on the homes of the accused, a court was told yesterday.

The Wales manager Gary Speed has been found dead at his home after apparently committing suicide.

A senior crown prosecutor, Ian Cunningham, is facing dismissal after a report into the activities of the undercover police officer Mark Kenendy identified failings by the lawyer.

Oxford University Professor Steve Rawlings has been found dead at the home of a fellow academic Dr Devinder Sivia, who claimed that the victim had attacked him after they spent an evening out together.

A student who was murdered and dumped on the Queen’s Sandringham estate could have been killed by a fellow reveller at a beach party she attended shortly before she died, police believe.

Pedestrians who write text messages on their mobile phones while walking in the street are facing a crack down in a US town.

The President of Argentina last night attacked Britain over its decision to fly the flag of the Falkland Islands above Downing Street to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the conflict, suggesting the Government should feel ‘ashamed’.

A Bangladeshi man who travelled to New York hoping to commit a terrorist attack so severe it would halt the US election was arrested after allegedly trying and failing to detonate a 1,000lb car bomb outside the Federal Reserve.

Just 20 years ago, at the height of New York City’s violent past, an average of six people were murdered every day - but Gotham has come a long way since then.