BBC News with Iain Purdon
News International, the media group at the centre of a major phone hacking scandal, says this Sunday's edition of its News of the World newspaper will be the last. The company's chairman James Murdoch said the paper had been in the business of holding others to account but had failed
when it came to
itself. Here's Rob Watson.
The statement says if the allegations against the paper are true, they are "inhuman" and the newspaper "has no place" in the News International company. Mr Murdoch says the paper has a proud history of fighting crime and exposing wrongdoing, but that the good things it does have been
sullied
by behaviour that was wrong. This truly dramatic move seems designed to take some of the sting out of the crisis and to show that the Murdoch empire is punishing itself.
Some analysts have suggested that the company might launch a new Sunday paper with a different name.
The Metropolitan Police in London say detectives investigating the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World have identified 4,000 potential victims. They say hundreds more people have contacted them, suspecting that their phone messages have been accessed.
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Britain to pay tens of thousands of dollars to the relatives of Iraqis killed by British troops during the occupation of Iraq. Britain had maintained that human rights laws did not