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...brouhaha kicked off on July 8, when the Guardian published a report citing an unnamed "senior source" at Scotland Yard as saying that News International had settled three cases out of court. Those cases allegedly demonstrated that its journalists had worked with private investigators to hack into the cell-phone messages of "two or three thousand" people to obtain data related to bank statements, phone bills, social-security records and taxes. Among the public figures the Guardian claims were targeted are former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, London mayor Boris Johnson and actress Gwyneth Paltrow. (See pictures of London...
...Suspicion also surrounds Scotland Yard, which chose not to notify those targeted by the hackers and said on July 9 that it would not investigate the claims because no new evidence has come to light since its original investigation in 2007. (Read "A Case for Scotland Yard...
That doesn't mean that animals will adapt and thrive in a warmer world. Far from it - by some estimates, rapid climate change could drive as many as one-third of the species on the planet out of existence by mid-century. Though warmer winters in blustery Scotland might sound nice - especially if you're a sheep on the small side - the changes due to global warming are likely to be far from positive in most parts of the world. Evolution will help species adapt, but there's a term for what happens when the pace of evolution...
...Within days of her burial, the government of then-President Pervez Musharraf had fingered Baitullah Mehsud, the notorious Taliban commander. It enlisted the police expertise of London's Scotland Yard to establish the exact circumstance of Bhutto's death (there was much uncertainty over whether she died by gunshot or by hitting the sunroof of the vehicle, for instance.) Pakistan's Interior Ministry, meanwhile, furnished telephone intercepts that pointed to Mehsud's involvement. The CIA agreed that the Taliban commander was the principal suspect. Although he has since denied involvement in the killing, Mehsud was reported to have issued threats...
...inquiry has set up shop in a U.N. office in Islamabad. "They have started receiving reams of transcripts and translations," says Haroon, including police case files and the Scotland Yard report. One of the assistants to Heraldo Munoz, the Chilean ambassador, is Peter Fitzgerald, a retired senior officer with Ireland's national police force. "Fitzgerald has worked on Hariri and in Bosnia," adds Haroon, "he's a great sleuth." Haroon sees the need for an investigation of international stature to allay the not uncommon suspicion of official collusion in her death. (Read: "A Year After Bhutto: Tears and Troop Movements...