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- News of the World phone hacking affair:
- British tabloid the News of the World faces fresh allegations linking it to hacking activities, this time after it emerges that the mobile phone of murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl Milly Dowler was interfered with and messages left by relatives were deleted. This gave relatives the false impression that Milly Dowler was still alive when she was not. (BBC) (Al Jazeera)
- Colin Stagg, the man who was falsely accused of Rachel Nickell's 1992 murder on Wimbledon Common, is informed that he too had his phone hacked by the News of the World, as many as six years after he was acquitted. Robert Napper later admitted responsibility. (The Guardian)
- It is revealed that police have contacted the parents of murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman amid concerns that the News of the World tabloid also hacked them. (The Guardian) (Channel 4 News) (BBC) (The Belfast Telegraph)
- Peta Buscombe, Baroness Buscombe states in an interview on the BBC that the News of the World tabloid told lies to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), an alteration in opinion. (The Guardian)
- David Cameron and Ed Miliband condemn the continuing revelations concerning the News of the World's alleged hacking activities. (The Guardian) (Channel 4 News)
- In an unusual move, House of Commons Speaker John Bercow allows an emergency debate to discuss the possibilities of a public inquiry and of a cover-up, occurring in the House of Commons tomorrow. (The Guardian)
- Ford Motor Company announces it is pulling all advertising from the News of the World tabloid following reports that it allegedly hacked the voicemail of murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl Milly Dowler; mobile communications company T-Mobile, Currys and PC World all consider joining Ford. (The Financial Times) (The Daily Telegraph)
- Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the allegations, apologises for any hurt he has caused. (The Telegraph)
- The family of a victim of the 7 July 2005 London bombings allegedly had their phones hacked. (Sky News)
- Both The Sun and Daily Mirror tabloid newspapers are accused of being in contempt of court for publishing articles about the arrest of Christopher Jefferies in relation to the murder of Joanna Yeates; Jefferies was later released without charge. British Attorney General Dominic Grieve is seeking to bring charges against the newspapers. Judges will make a decision on the case at a later date.(BBC) (The Belfast Telegraph)
- 13 UK Uncut activists appear in court on charges of aggravated trespass after peacefully occupying the luxury London food retailer Fortnum & Mason during a protest against tax avoidance in March. More than 100 other activists are also expected to be put on trial later, with Labour MP John McDonnell claiming such a trial would be "outrageous" and "fly in the face of public opinion". (The Guardian)
- The Netherlands is held responsible for the deaths of three Bosniaks during the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, according to a court ruling in The Hague. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) (Reuters via The Guardian)
- 25-year-old navy medic Michael Lyons is found guilty in Plymouth of refusing to attend rifle training; Lyons says he developed a moral objection to the war in Afghanistan due to revelations made public by WikiLeaks. (The Guardian)
- New South Wales police are given more powers to remove burqas as anyone refusing to do so faces fines of thousands of dollars or months behind bars. (BBC) (AFP via France 24) (The Guardian)
- Up to 7,000 police march on Yonge Street in Newmarket, Ontario, including some Royal Canadian Mounted Police and American officers, accompanied by thousands of spectators for the funeral procession for Canadian YRP police Constable Garrett Styles, killed when a 15-year-old underage driver accelerated during a traffic stop. (CBC) (The Toronto Star) (The Hamilton Spectator)
- The Supreme Court of England and Wales dismisses an attempt by police to suspend a legal ruling limiting the powers of police bail. (BBC)
- A Somali man, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, is charged in the US city of New York with assisting the terrorist groups Al Shaabab and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. (New York Times)
- Casey Anthony is acquitted of murder in relation to the death of her daughter Caylee, but guilty on four counts of misdemeanor providing false information to a law enforcement officer. (AP via Detroit Free Press)(USA Today)
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