I like British politics and general happenings quite a bit. It's like a somewhat surreal and nigh inconsequential version of US, erm, things. Nigh would be the operative word here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8621797/Phone-hacking-families-of-war-dead-targeted-by-News-of-the-World.html
You can read the article yourself and get the gist of it. Two things worth pointing out, I think, is that this 150+ year old British paper is getting shut down by some convict. Our man Murdoch himself, in fact. I believe there was quite a bit of objection to his purchase of the paper among the UK public in the first place. Of course NOTW isn't the only paper doing this, The Guardian, The Mirror, The Independent and others have been implicated as well.
Most importantly, and what this article appears to obfuscate, is the police corruption. Apparently many of the numbers were provided to the papers by policemen. Also, Murdoch is apparently trying to buy out BSkyB, further consolidating his media empire.
Oh, ingerlund.
PS if there are any British posters around who've noticed an error here then feel free to correct, even though you people are clearly of questionable veracity. Perfide Britannia?
PPS I'm well aware of the difference between the UK, Britain and England. For all intents and purposes however, they don't really warrant solid differentiation.