Need to know: News of the World has become just about synonymous with phone-hacking at this point, but new revelations suggest the practice may be far more widespread - and not just at Murdoch papers. Journalists from News of the World's Sunday rival, The People, say they witnessed phone hacking in the newsroom and a reporter from The Sunday Mirror says private detectives were often hired to dig up information. Other Murdoch developments include British Prime Minister David Cameron under new pressure for reportedly having discussed Murdoch's failed bid for BSkyB with the mogul's executives, and Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev, who owns The Independent, says he wants to buy News of the World and rebrand it. Also, Murdoch's pie-in-the-face moment is now infamous, but he isn't alone: Take a look at history's pie-in-the-face moments. |
| Want to know: The U.S. shuttle Atlantis has landed for the last time, marking the end of NASA's 30-year space shuttle program. The shuttle and its four-member US crew landed safely at Kennedy Space Center at 5.56 a.m., 42 years after Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the Moon. |
| Dull but important: Germany and France have agreed on a proposal for a rescue plan for Greece and will be presenting it to European officials today. Details of the agreement have not been disclosed. The question now is, can Merkel and Sarkozy convince the rest of the euro zone to back the plan? |
| Just because: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the militant's offshoot based in Yemen, is putting the finishing touches on a cartoon meant to educate kids about the history of the group and inspire them to commit acts of terrorism. The animated film, titled "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," shows young boys dressed in battle fatigues and carrying out raids, killings and terror plots. |
| Strange but true: You'd think if North Korea's elite was going to violate sanctions, they'd do so for some high-end goods like Armani and Hennessy Cognac. OK, they are doing that. But what they really want, apparently, is a Big Mac. According to the Telegraph, "Some officials have had had McDonald's hamburgers delivered to their homes from China through North Korea's Air Koryo. While North Korea has no McDonald's franchises, its neighbour has 850." Something else China has? A whole fake Apple store , totally counterfeit from bottom to top. Even the staff believes it is working for Apple. No joke. |
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