A TOP law firm yesterday came under renewed pressure to explain claims it failed to raise the alarm over evidence of police bribes at News International.

THE plot could have come straight from a John le Carre novel — with a cast including a former warlord, a supermodel, an actress and a bag full of blood diamonds.

LAWYERS defending former Liberian president Charles Taylor have filed an urgent motion in an attempt to delay supermodel Naomi Campbell giving evidence in his war crimes trial.