Day: July 18, 2011

London’s police chief says he’ll resign as a result of the widening phone-hacking scandal that has rocked his department. Also Sunday, former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was arrested. FULL STORY | Brooks arrested

Fighting between Libyan rebels and government troops raged around the eastern Libyan oil town of Brega throughout the weekend as NATO warplanes launched a sustained pre-dawn raid on Tripoli’s eastern suburbs.