Top story: Sir Paul Stephenson, the head of Scotland Yard and Britain's most senior police official, resigned on Sunday due to widespread criticism of how his police force had handled the revelation that employees at the now-shuttered British tabloid News of the World hacked the phones of thousands of British citizens and bribed police for information. Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of News International, which owned the tabloid, was arrested only hours before his resignation.
Scotland Yard has been criticized for hiring Neil Wallis, a former News of the World editor, as a public-relations consultant. Wallis, who has been accused of phone hacking, was arrested last week. Stephenson implied that the British Prime Minister David Cameron had not been kept informed of Scotland Yard's investigation into Wallis because of Wallis's "close relationship" with Andy Coulson, Cameron's former communications director and a former editor at News of the World.
Cameron is coming under increasing fire from the opposition for his relationship with Coulson, who resigned in January as information about the phone hacking scandal came to light and was arrested earlier this month.
Stephenson admitted that his force had underestimated the scope of wrongdoing at News of the World. It made two arrests in 2006 and subsequently dropped the matter, despite a 2009 report from the Guardian newspaper about widespread abuses at the tabloid.
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Americas
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to Cuba for further cancer treatment.
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Gen. David Petraeus handed over command of the NATO mission in Afghanistan.
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Argentina welcomed an offer by Iran to assist in its investigation of a 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires.
Asia
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Several people have been killed in an attack on a police station in China's Xinjiang province.
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Indian police are investigating the death of a man that was called in for questioning in connection to the attacks in Mumbai last week.
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The Taliban released a video that appears to show militants executing 16 Pakistani policemen.
Middle East
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Syrian troops approached the eastern town of Albokamal amidst fears of a crackdown.
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Tunisian rioters clashed with police in the capital of Tunis in what has been seen as an indication of growing tension between secular and Islamist groups.
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Libya's rebels said that they are engaged in fierce clashes with government forces in the town of Brega.
Europe
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A Hungary court acquitted a 97-year-old man on charges of committing war crimes during World War II.
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European stock markets fell amidst fears that the debt crisis in the Eurozone could spread.
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An Italian court ruled that it was competent to hear sex-related charges brought against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Africa
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The United Nations made its first airlift of aid to a Somali village controlled by al-Shabaab.
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South Africa celebrated the 93rd birthday of former President Nelson Mandela.
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A spokesman for Cameroon's President Paul Biya announced that the president will run for reelection.
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