UK ex-editor fights for phone hacking legal fees

Britain's opposition Labour party called Sunday for a fresh police probe into phone-hacking by journalists, amid reports that former prime minister Gordon Brown was among the high-profile figures targeted.Fresh revelations in the scandal over phone hacking at the Rupert Murdoch owned News of the World forced Prime Minister David Cameron's media chief Andy Coulson, a former editor of the tabloid, to quit last week.

LONDON — A top counterterrorism detective was found guilty Thursday of trying to sell information to a Rupert Murdoch tabloid, becoming the first person to be convicted on charges related to Britain’s phone-hacking scandal since a police investigation was reopened in early 2011. Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn was charged with misconduct for phoning the News of the World and offering to pass on information about whether London’s police force would reopen its stalled phone-hacking investigation.

British Prime Minister David Cameron promised urgent inquiries into Britain's tabloid phone hacking row as his ex-media chief and a former royal reporter were arrested over the spiralling scandal.Cameron looked rattled during the toughest press conference of his year in power Friday, but he defended his decision to hire Andy Coulson, a former editor of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid, which is to shut this weekend.