LONDON (Reuters) – Britain says the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) needs a major overhaul because it has become bogged down with trivial cases, repeatedly rules on similar issues and overrules national decisions unnecessarily.

In a speech to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Prime Minister David Cameron, whose government has been a vocal critic of some of the court’s recent decisions in British cases, will call Wednesday for a reform of the court.

LONDON (Reuters) – Journalists from the News of the World tabloid misled police after hacking the mobile phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, action which sparked a scandal engulfing News Corp, a letter from police published on Monday said.

Surrey Police said reporters had lied to police after hacking into Dowler’s voicemail messages in 2002 and put pressure on detectives working on her case.

LONDON, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Journalists from the News
of the World tabloid misled police after hacking the mobile
phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, action which sparked
a scandal engulfing News Corp, a letter from police
published on Monday said.

Surrey Police said reporters had lied to police after
hacking into Dowler’s voicemail messages in 2002 and put
pressure on detectives working on her case.

LONDON (Reuters) – This summer’s London Olympics are at risk from athletes cheating at the behest of illegal betting syndicates trying to fix results or parts of competitions, the head of Interpol said Thursday.

Ronald Noble, general secretary of the French-based international police agency, said the prevalence of sports events being fixed suggested that the Olympic Games would also be targeted by gambling rings.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain accused Argentina of “colonialism” in its claim to the Falkland Islands on Wednesday, as the 30th anniversary of their conflict over the British-ruled territory approaches.

A day after Britain’s National Security Council discussed the Falklands’ defenses, Prime Minister David Cameron told parliament Britain was committed to protecting the South Atlantic islands and added that people there should be allowed to decide their own nationality.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain accused Argentina of “colonialism” in its claim to the Falkland Islands on Wednesday, as the 30th anniversary of their conflict over the British-ruled territory approaches.

A day after Britain’s National Security Council discussed the Falklands’ defences, Prime Minister David Cameron told parliament Britain was committed to protecting the South Atlantic islands and added that people there should be allowed to decide their own nationality.

LONDON (Reuters) – A seven-mile flotilla of 1,000 ships will sail down the River Thames in one of the biggest and most spectacular events ever seen in London to mark Queen Elizabeth’s 60 years on the throne, organizers said on Wednesday.

The 10 million pound ($15 million) pageant will include a royal barge and feature some 20,000 participants, historic boats, working vessels, small kayaks, musicians and an orchestra, as well as a unique floating bell tower.

LONDON (Reuters) – There is no prospect of Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, being extradited to Turkey to face criminal charges over her undercover reporting for a TV documentary on Turkish orphanages, a British interior ministry source said on Friday.

Turkey sought Ferguson’s extradition after a Turkish court accused her of “breaking the law in acquiring footage and violating the privacy of five children” while making the documentary in 2008, Turkey’s Anatolian news agency said.

LONDON (Reuters) – Police are to investigate claims that UK secret services helped the rendition of Libyan Islamists to Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya where they were tortured.

But an inquiry has found no evidence UK spies were complicit in separate allegations of torture of terrorism suspects abroad.

LONDON (Reuters) – A British cabinet member from Prime Minister David Cameron’s junior coalition allies dismissed his decision to veto an EU treaty change as a political move that bought a popularity boost at home but left Europe’s problems unsolved.

Cameron’s veto of an EU deal to help address the debt crisis in the euro zone won him a hero’s welcome at home with his broadly eurosceptic Conservative Party but opened a rift with his junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats.