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'Defective Implant' Storm Hits UK

Some 50,000 British women could require operations to remove defective breast implants after warnings about their safety emerged. The French government is preparing to order the products, which were filled using industrial instead of medical grade silicone, be removed from every woman who has had them fitted. The implants were made by a French and exported around the world. Eight cancer cases, including one death, have been linked to the implants in France and hundreds of other women have reported ruptures in the devices.

Piers Morgan's Phone 'Was Hacked'

A former Daily Mirror journalist, has told the Leveson inquiry he witnessed a colleague hacking into the then editor Piers Morgan's phone. James Hipwell was fired from the Daily Mirror in 2000 over he and a colleague dealing in shares for which he was also writing predictions and later jailed after a Department of Trade and Industry investigation. Hipwell claimed the incident took place at the beginning of 2000. In his inquiry witness statement, Hipwell said the journalist followed through with this offer to hack the Daily Mirror editor's mobile phone. "Yes he did, in front of me ... I don't think it elicited a great deal of information. But he certainly tried," Hipwell told the inquiry.

Argentina Accuses Britain Of Resource Theft

The Argentinian president has accused Britain of taking her country's resources after Foreign Office condemned a South American trading bloc ban on boats with a Falkland Islands flag from its ports. President Christina Kirchner also accused the UK of ignoring UN resolutions while tensions over the long-disputed territory remain high. The Foreign Office said Britain was very concerned by what it saw as the "latest Argentine attempt to isolate the Falkland Islands people and damage their livelihoods, for which there is no justification".

(DW)