Robert Mackey The New York Times

• New videos help piece together Gaddafi's last minutes

  An examination of several brief video clips that have emerged since Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi and his son Muatassim were killed on Thursday seems to suggest that both men suffered their fatal wounds sometime after they were captured.

• Live blog: Cameron in Parliament on phone-hacking scandal

  Cameron in Parliament on phone-hacking scandal: Mr. Cameron says that his chief of staff behaved entirely properly in refusing to take a briefing from John Yates, the assistant police commissioner, on phone hacking. He says that it would have been improper for anyone on his staff to receive privileged information on police inquiries into phone hack...

• Live Blog: Hearing on hacking scandal

  Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal: These are the latest developments in the British phone hacking scandal, as central figures in the drama appear in London for parliamentary hearings.

• Israeli official apologises for 'bra-gate'

  The head of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's press office apologized on Thursday for the intensive security screening several journalists were subjected to before a cocktail party they had been invited to by the government.As the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported, several members of the foreign press corps who showed up for the party on...

• Iran's leading filmmaker jailed for 6 years for working on 'anti-regime' film

  Jafar Panahi, a celebrated Iranian filmmaker who was arrested in February and accused of working on an "anti-regime" film, was sentenced to six years in prison on Saturday in Tehran, his lawyer told an Iranian news agency on Monday.Mr. Panahi, who had expressed support for Iran's opposition green movement during post-election protests in 2009, "has...

• Long jail term for Iran's 'Blogfather'

  An Iranian news Web site reported on Tuesday that Hossein Derakhshan, an influential Iranian-Canadian blogger  who was arrested two years ago when he returned from self-imposed exile to live in Iran, was sentenced to nearly two decades in prison by a court in Tehran.As Cyrus Farivar, an Iranian-American journalist, noted on his blog, Iran's Ma...

• Steering error sank the Titanic, claims author

  The granddaughter of a senior member of the Titanic's crew has revealed in a new book what she describes as a family secret kept for decades: That a simple steering error caused the ship to strike an iceberg and sink during its maiden voyage in 1912.Louise Patten, a novelist whose new book, Good as Gold, mixes fact and fiction, told The T...