Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks laid bare details of her “car crash” personal life as she gave evidence about the inner workings of the News of the World.

Rebekah Brooks has denied any knowledge of phone hacking while she was editor of the News of the World, insisting it was impossible for her to know the source of every story that appeared in the tabloid.

Former News International boss Rebekah Brooks began giving evidence in her defence at the phone hacking trial today after she was formally cleared of a charge linked to a picture of Prince William dressed as a bikini-clad Bond girl at a Sandhurst party.

Rebekah Brooks, former head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper group, told Eimear Cook, the ex-wife of golfer Colin Montgomerie, that it was “easy” to listen to other people’s voicemails, Cook told a London court.

Rebekah Brooks could not be shown to have authorised payments to private investigator Glenn Mulcaire during her editorship at the News of the World, it was claimed in court.

Data seized from a UK investigative journalist’s partner who was detained for nine hours under anti-terror laws has led the police to launch a criminal investigation, the High Court in London has been told.

A JURY convicted a former British Airways computer specialist of plotting with US-born extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki to blow up an airplane.

A former British Airways computer expert was convicted today of conspiring with a wanted terrorist to blow up a plane.

A servant allegedly beaten and strangled by a Saudi prince died without even putting up a fight, a court heard today.

A gay Saudi prince murdered his servant in a ferocious attack with a “sexual element”, a court heard.

A gay Saudi prince killed his servant in a murder of “ferocity” which had a “sexual element”, a court heard today.

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy murdered his ex-girlfriend and her older sister in a house fire out of revenge after they split up, a court has heard.

Two doctors plotted to kill hundreds in a wave of car bombings across Britain, a court was told today.

Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando was deeply in love and planning to marry when she was gunned down on her doorstep.

CRIMEWATCH presenter Jill Dando was deeply in love and planning to marry when she was gunned down on her doorstep.

THE case built by police investigating the murder of Jill Dando showed celebrity-obsessed Barry George “and no other” could have killed her, jurors heard yesterday.

The man accused of being the stalker who murdered British TV presenter Jill Dando had shown interest in two James Bond actresses, the Old Bailey heard today.

A MAN obsessed with celebrities and female television personalities murdered the popular BBC presenter Jill Dando in an unprovoked killing almost a decade ago, a court was told yesterday.

Potential jurors in the Barry George retrial in London were told today that they would be excluded if they knew murder victim Jill Dando.

A MEMBER of the first British suicide bomb mission to Israel was encouraged to go by his sister, a court heard yesterday.

TWO young students were slowly and “chillingly” suffocated to death by their landlord and their bodies entombed — one in a suitcase and the other in a sealed cupboard, an Old Bailey court heard yesterday.