BBC News with David Austin
The British parliament is holding a rare emergency debate on Wednesday on the scandal
engulf
ing the media group News International. One of its papers, the News of the World, is said to have paid for the hacking of the mobile phone of a murdered girl, Milly Dowler, while she was missing, an
allegation
that the paper's then editor Rebekah Brooks said she was appalled by. Naomi Grimley reports.
It's a sign of how serious the phone hacking scandal has become that the House of Commons will now debate the latest allegations. This is
no longer
about the privacy of a few celebrities or politicians. It's instead become a much bigger question about journalistic ethics. The latest claims suggest a private investigator acting for the News of the World hacked into the voicemails of the murdered schoolgirl while she was missing. In a separate case, the parents of two girls who were murdered by a paedophile have also been told that their voicemails may have been accessed.
An appeals court in the Netherlands has found the Dutch state responsible for the deaths of three Muslim men in Srebrenica in 1995 during the Bosnian conflict. Nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed. This report from Chris Morris.
The court ruled the Dutch UN troops should not have handed the three men over to the Bosnian Serb forces who killed them.
"The state of the Netherlands," the judge said, "is responsible for their deaths." The role of the Netherlands and its troops has always been under