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...while processing this directive] arrested journalist Clive Goodman, chief royal correspondent at Britain's largest Sunday tabloid, the News of the World (NOTW), for allegedly obtaining private information by hacking into mobile-phone voice-mail messages of top aides of Prince Charles. The Scoop: Why the arrest? According to Scotland Yard, Goodman's nine alleged offenses include conspiracy to "intercept communications"; two other men were also arrested. Hacking into mobile-phone answering services, a practice generally referred to as "phone-screwing," has become a well-known technique used by British tabloids. Staffers at Clarence House - the official residence of Prince...
...Britain's MI-5 intelligence service and Scotland Yard had been tracking the plot for several months, but only in the past two weeks had the plotters' planning begun to crystallize, senior U.S. officials tell TIME. In the two or three days before the arrests, the cell was going operational, and authorities were pressed into action. MI5 and Scotland Yard agents tracked the plotters from the ground, while a knowledgeable American official says U.S. intelligence provided London authorities with intercepts of the group's communications. Most of the suspects are second- or third-generation British citizens of Pakistani descent whose...
...vineyard tours are to France or brewery visits are to Germany, so whisky trails are to Scotland, connecting around 90 distilleries from the internationally famous to the delightfully obscure, and giving visitors a glimpse at centuries of whiskymaking history. Their growing popularity has prompted some Scottish distilleries to open slick tourist centers, complete with interactive exhibits and branded merchandise for sale - but it can be just as much[an error occurred while processing this directive] fun to turn up at a distillery where no concessions are made to visitors beyond an impromptu tour of the production facilities and a quick...
...Dolly is arguably one of the most, if not the most, important scientific milestones in modern science. How did such a momentous event come from a small village in Scotland...
...have too many mouths to feed and not enough food," he says. Despite the nearby emergency feeding center that treats the hungriest, two infants died last year. This season, Salou fears they may lose more. A year after the leaders of the world's richest nations gathered in Scotland to work out a deal to help Africa, the results are still in the balance. The deal - a doubling of aid for the continent by 2010 and debt cancellation for eligible, heavily indebted poor countries, most of them African - was hailed as a breakthrough. For a brief moment, to the sounds...