Police arrest Sun tabloid staff.
UK detectives have searched the offices of Rupert Murdoch's The Sun and arrested four journalists and a policeman in a widening probe into the bribing of police for information.
The development finally drags Britain's biggest-selling newspaper into the turmoil at Mr Murdoch's empire, after its stablemate the News of the World was shut down in disgrace in July amid a scandal over phone hacking.
Mr Murdoch's US-based News Corporation confirmed that the four journalists arrested either worked or used to work at The Sun.
Police said they made the arrests after information was provided to police by News Corporation - in what commentators said was a clear effort by the company to detoxify the brand.
The BBC and the Guardian newspaper named the arrested Sun journalists as former deputy editor Fergus Shanahan, former managing editor Graham Dudman, current crime editor Mike Sullivan and current head of news Chris Pharo.
In an email to staff, Tom Mockridge, the chief executive of Murdoch's British subsidiary News International, said that the company had provided legal support to the arrested men.
Spain jobless rate soars to 17-year high
Spain's unemployment figure has topped 5 million, the highest rate for 17 years.
The National Statistics Institute says 5.27 million Spaniards are out of work, representing an unemployment rate of 22.85 per cent - twice the eurozone average.
Young people were hit especially hard, with more than half of 16- to 24-year-olds - 51.4 per cent - looking for a job.
The new government has announced a new round of austerity cuts but many doubt it will achieve pre-election pledge to reduce the deficit to 4.4 per cent this year.
The Bank of Spain is predicting the country's economy will shrink by 1.5 per cent as the debt crisis affects business confidence and squeezes bank credit.
It makes a stark contrast from the heady days of Spain's property boom, when the unemployment rate fell to just 7.95 per cent in 2007.
The 2008 property bubble collapse and global financial crisis destroyed millions of jobs, left banks with huge bad loans, and Spain's national and regional governments with big debts.
The International Monetary Fund predicts the Spanish economy will shrink by 1.7 per cent in 2012 and another 0.3 per cent in 2013.
Japan loses track of radioactive cows
Japanese authorities have lost track of nearly 3,000 dead cows suspected of containing high levels of radioactive caesium.
The cows ate rice straw contaminated in the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Last year Japan's health ministry ordered the testing of more than 4,500 beef cattle suspected of being contaminated with radiation.
But according to Japan's Yomiuri newspaper, so far only a third has been tested, with the distribution routes of about 3,000 head of slaughtered cattle remaining a mystery.
Of the tested meat, about 6 per cent was found to contain radioactive caesium above the acceptable safe limit.
Food safety experts say that consumers would have to eat a lot of the meat to suffer any damage to their health.
Kim Dotcom: No longer MW3′s best player
BEING arrested on suspicion of internet piracy can have a disastrous affect on your Modern Warfare 3 (MW3) rankings.
Multi-millionaire Kim Dotcom is no longer the world’s number one player of the game on Xbox after his arrest last week, with charges relating to his file-trading site Megaupload, gaming website Venturebeat reports.
The Megaupload founder, who legally changed his name from Kim Schmitz, has notched up 180,980 kills and only 86,241 deaths playing under the alias of Megaracer on the popular first-person shooter.
These impressive stats took him to the top of MW3 leaderboard , with Dotcom creating a YouTube video of the historic moment last month.
However, Dotcom was overtaken by rival Arazos yesterday, Venturebeat said.
Modern Warfare 3 - created by Activision Blizzard - is the most popular video game of all time, with an estimated 15 million users on Xbox Live.
“'If I worked for Activision Blizzard, the publisher of Modern Warfare 3, I would put up his bail money,” Venturebeat wrote.
The news comes as Dotcom was denied bail by a New Zealand judge.
Judge David McNaughton issued his ruling on but did not give a reason for his decision.
Dotcom was arrested at the request of US authorities, in a raid at his NZ$30 million ($24 million) property in Coatesville, 24km north of Auckland.
Megaupload employees Bram van der Kolk, 29, Finn Batato, 38, and Mathias Ortmann, 40, were also arrested in the raid last Friday. Another three suspects remain at large.
All seven were charged by the FBI over alleged violations of piracy laws worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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UK to block News Corp bid
British government lawyers are drafting a plan to block Rupert Murdoch's bid for the pay-TV operator BSkyB, the Independent newspaper is reporting.
The move follows revelations of illegal voicemail hacking at Mr Murdoch's the News of the World.
The hacking, which targeted a murdered girl and the relatives of victims of the 2005 London bomb attacks, has stirred broad public and political anger and given a boost to opponents of the BSkyB bid.
Questions have also been raised about relations between politicians, including prime minister David Cameron - who hired the paper's former editor Andy Coulson as his spin doctor - and Mr Murdoch.
Mr Cameron has come under growing pressure to halt the deal, at least until an investigation into the phone-hacking has been completed.
"We are working on a plan to suspend the deal while the police investigation is taking place," a senior government source was quoted by the newspaper as saying.
"But we have to ensure it doesn't get thrown out by judicial review."
