British Prime Minister David Cameron bowed to political pressure today to hold inquiries into the phone-hacking scandal and the original police investigation which failed to get to the bottom of it.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced today that he will seek parliamentary approval for a referendum to ditch the first-past-the-post voting system for Westminster elections.

ITALIAN prosecutors have requested that the estranged husband of Britain's culture Secretary Tessa Jowell stands trial for corruption alongside Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.