Horse adds light relief to UK phone hacking saga

The Bumi saga deepened on Friday with allegations that hackers broke into the chairman's computer to steal documents used to spark a crisis at the mining group. An investigation by a private security company suggests hackers retrieved information from Samin Tan's laptop, which was sent to a member of Bumi's board by an unnamed "whistleblower", plunging the company into chaos.

People throughout Ireland and the U.K. have been scandalized by revelations that some of their beef products (such as frozen beef lasagna) have actually been made with horse meat instead of beef.

This week the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) made a horrifying discovery — three meat processing plants had somehow allowed horse meat to get into beef burgers that were then sold in supermarket chains in the UK and Ireland.

POROSCHIA, Romania — Florin Dumitru, like millions of subsistence farmers in Romania, the European Union’s second-poorest country, will have no choice when the horse that ploughs his scrap of land can no longer earn its keep. “What do you have to do when he can’t plough or pull a cart any more? You just sell it to the slaughterhouse to butcher it,” said Dumitru, 40, who lives in Poroschia, home to one of Romania’s big abattoirs.

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In January, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) made a horrifying discovery — horse meat had been found in beef burgers that were then sold in supermarket chains in the UK and Ireland.