Phone hacking victims get access to critical evidence (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? Like all good tabloid tales, the News of the World saga is a scandal that keeps on giving.

British investigators have spent months sharing thousands of pages of seized evidence with hundreds of suspected targets of alleged phone hacking by the now-defunct newspaper.

The problem for Rupert Murdoch's UK-based News International, which published the newspaper, is that each session with probable victims could trigger new revelations and new lawsuits, including possible litigation in U.S. courts.

"Most of the people who are informed by police that their phones have been hacked will sue for invasion of their privacy," said Geoffrey Robertson, one of Britain's most prominent human rights lawyers. "Some celebrities are upset that they're not on the list so far and are waiting with impatience to be informed by Scotland Yard."

The main evidence, say victims of the hacking and lawyers representing them, consists of 11,000 pages of handwritten notes made by a private detective who was paid an annual retainer by the shuttered tabloid. The notes, several people who have seen the evidence said, contain names of suspected hacking targets, phone numbers with which they were associated and names of possible associates of the targets.

So far, about 65 hacking victims have filed lawsuits against News International. But as of early October, police had contacted just 450 or so of the 6,000 suspected targets and associates named in the private detective's notes, according to lawyers involved in the process. The company has settled some of the most high-profile ones, including cases involving actress Sienna Miller and the head of the British soccer-players' union.

News International also faces three police investigations, as well as a judge-led public inquiry which is examining reporting practices across the British media and the relationships between the media, police and political figures.

News International says it has set aside a fund of 20 million pounds sterling ($31.6 million) to compensate phone hacking victims. But lawyers and other people in contact with police about hacking evidence say that they suspect News International will pay a lot more when legal costs are included.

"The losses caused by this are going to be over 100 million pounds (sterling)," said Mark Lewis, a lawyer who represents several suspected or confirmed phone hacking targets, including the family of Millie Dowler, a murdered British schoolgirl.

Two other people involved in phone hacking claims or inquiries put the company's potential financial exposure even higher, at up to 300 million pounds.

In response to a detailed email query from Reuters, a News International spokeswoman declined to comment.

Reuters is a competitor of Dow Jones Newswires, the financial news agency that News Corp , Murdoch's main company, acquired along with the Wall Street Journal in 2007.

News Corp's annual general meeting is scheduled to be held in Los Angles on Friday.

TROUBLE IN THE UNITED STATES?

One source who has seen the evidence said some of the notes suggest that at least one phone target had their voice mail hacked while they were in the United States. The source said that this could give the target grounds for a legal claim against News Corp in U.S. courts.

U.S. authorities have been conducting an investigation of allegations by the Daily Mirror, a British rival to Murdoch's Sun newspaper, that Murdoch journalists sought to hack phones of some victims of the September 11 2001 attacks on New York and Washington D.C., or victims' relatives. But a U.S. government source said this investigation had not been particularly active in recent weeks.

As well as the notes, investigators have shown some suspected UK hacking targets typewritten transcripts of voice mail messages which allegedly were hacked by operatives for the newspaper. Other evidence collected by the police is said to include thousands, if not millions, of emails from inside News International, Murdoch's UK newspaper publishing company.

Some hacking victims, who have been named "core participants" by the judge overseeing the public inquiry, have been advised they will be given wide access to evidence assembled by the inquiry.

It will take months, if not years, before investigators contact and notify all the people named in the investigators notes. As a consequence, it is also likely to take years for all potential hacking claims against Murdoch's company to surface, several people directly involved in phone hacking-related inquiries and litigation said.

LEGAL QUIRK

News International's exposure to legal fees and costs is in part a consequence of quirks in the English legal system, under which losers in certain types of lawsuits -- including lawsuits for defamation and invasion of privacy -- are required to pay the legal bills of the winners in the litigation.

In some of the phone hacking cases, people involved in the litigation said, News International has subjected itself to what are called "after event insurance" arrangements. This means that if the company loses, it has to pay an insurance premium to cover appropriate legal costs.

Premiums escalate depending upon how far the case proceeds. If a case is settled early in pre-trial litigation, the premium paid would be modest. But if a case goes to trial and the company loses, it could be liable to pay a premium of as high as 80,000-100,000 pounds per case.

According to estimates assembled by a source who is closely involved in several phone hacking cases, News International has so far settled just over half a dozen cases for sums ranging from 3 million pounds (paid, in the form of 2 million pounds in damages and a 1 million pound charitable contribution, in the case of Millie Dowler, the murdered schoolgirl) to a mere 20,000 pounds (to an English soccer commentator).

When the Dowler payout is included, settlements paid out to date total around 4.2 million pounds, the source said. But the source also estimated that the company had paid out another 1.5 million pounds in legal fees and costs while conducting the preliminary litigation which led to the settlements.

A London judge has scheduled a trial early next year for a representative sampling of the claims.

British police have so far notified targets of hacking mentioned in seized evidence of the possibility that they were hacked and offered them an opportunity to examine some of the evidence.

Possible victims who have met with the police said the evidence they were shown consisted of pages from notebooks complied by Glenn Mulcaire, a private eye who in 2007 was sent to jail for six months after he pleaded guilty to charges of hacking into voice messages left for members of the entourage of Britain's Royal family.

Conspicuously deleted from copies of notebook pages which have been shown to hacking targets are the names of News of the World journalists who apparently commissioned specific hacking assignments from Mulcaire. ($1 = 0.632 British Pounds)

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Busted! Gender Myths in the Bedroom & Beyond (LiveScience.com)

The difference in men's and women's attitudes toward sex are often taken for granted. Men want sex, women want commitment; men look for attractive mates and women go after social status.

But not all psychologists are on board with these gender-essentialist statements.

In a new review, University of Michigan psychologist Terri Conley and colleagues sift through psychology studies and find gender differences aren't always as black-and-white (or pink-and-blue) as they seem. Here are six gender differences that may not be innate after all.

1. Men want "sexy," women want "status"

An underpinning of evolutionary psychology is that men look for sexy women who are likely to provide them with attractive, healthy offspring, while women are more concerned than men about getting a high-status mate who can be a good provider.

When psychologists ask research subjects (mostly college students) to imagine their ideal mate, that is indeed what they typically find. But when people in an actual speed-dating event rated the importance of attractiveness and status, these gender differences evaporated, according to a 2008 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

When the research participants met potential dates face to face, there was no difference in the way they rated their romantic interest based on those people's attractiveness and earnings. So it seems real-world attraction may go beyond simple stereotypes. [10 Things Every Woman Should Know About a Man's Brain]

"Thinking about 'ideal' elicits more stereotypical thoughts about women and men ? and what women and men 'should' do," Conley wrote in an email to LiveScience. "When someone evaluates a real person, it is a little different."

2. Men want many sex partners, women want far fewer

If you ask a lot of men and women how many sex partners they'd want in a given period of time, the numbers provided by men average higher than the women's numbers. But it seems that a few randy fellows at the top are skewing the results as a whole.

Calculating an average does not always give you the clearest view of the data. (If, for example, researchers asked 10 men how many sex partners they wanted in the next year and nine said "one" while one said "20," the average would be 2.9, and you might expect that any given man wants about three sex partners in a year.)

If you look instead at the "typical" response to the question of how many partners people want, you find that the majority of both men and women offer the same answer: one.

Again, survey responses may be more about what people believe they should say, rather than what they really want, Conley said. That issue may be exacerbated because most sexual preference studies are conducted using college students, she added, and the young men are eager to conform to expectations of masculinity.

How about how many sexual partners men and women actually have? Studies generally find that men report more partners than women. But in 2003, researchers reported in the Journal of Sex Research that if you trick research participants into believing that they are hooked up to a lie-detector test, men report the same number of sexual partners as women.

3. Men think about sex more than women do

The clich? that men think about sex every seven seconds is not true. And while it's true that men think about sex more often than women do, they also think about other bodily needs, such as food and sleep, more than women do.

In a study published in 2011 in the Journal of Sex Research, psychologists asked research participants to record their thoughts throughout the day. They found that men pondered sex 18 times a day to a woman's 10 times a day, but men also thought about food and sleep proportionately more than women. That suggests sex doesn't hold as vaunted a position for men as you might expect.

4. Women have far fewer orgasms than men do

Are women biologically doomed to a life of less sexual pleasure than men? Studies suggest that men do experience more orgasms than women, but Conley and her colleagues add a large caveat: The differences are largest in one-night stands and hookup relationships. Things look rosier for women in long-term relationships.

In a study published in the book "Families as They Really Are," (W.W. Norton and Co., 2009), researchers asked more than 12,925 people about their sexual experiences. They found that women reached orgasm only about a third as much as men during first-time hookups, and only half as often as men during repeated hookups. But in committed relationships, women has orgasms 79 percent as often as men. [Top 10 Aphrodisiacs]

The fact that the gap can shrink so much based on relationship type suggests that having a partner who cares about a woman's sexual satisfaction is more important than biology, Conley and her colleagues wrote.

5. Men like casual sex more than women do

For a 1989 study, researchers trained young men and women to approach opposite-sex individuals of a similar age and proposition them. In a striking contrast, 70 percent of the men approached by a woman seeking sex said, "Sure." Not a single woman agreed.

The result could be taken to mean that women aren't interested in casual sex. But there is evidence that cultural factors play a major role, Conley and her colleagues wrote. When women are asked to consider a hypothetical offer from someone more familiar or very attractive, they become much more receptive. Likewise, gender differences in one-night-stand interest evaporated when men and women were asked to consider sleeping with someone famous.

Conley, in yet-unpublished research, said she has found that women being propositioned by a strange man simply expect him to be no good in bed.

"Women accepted fewer casual-sex offers from men than vice versa," she wrote, "because male proposers were perceived to have relatively poorer sexual capabilities."

6. Women are pickier than men

Evolutionary theory holds that men want to spread their seed, while women are choosy about whom they mate with. But this may not be universal, according to Conley and her colleagues.

A 2009 study published in Psychological Science found that people are choosier when they're approached by a potential partner, and less choosy when they're doing the approaching. The experiment, conducted in a real-life speed-dating environment, showed that when men rotated through women who stayed seated in the same spot, the women were more selective about whom they chose to date. When the women did the rotating, it was the guys who were pickier.

Because guys are traditionally the ones who make the first move, women may simply get more of a chance to be choosy. Perhaps, Conley and her colleagues wrote, women's pickiness is tied more to dating rules than to innate desires.

Conley said that these against-the-grain studies highlight the importance of following the data to their conclusion, even when that conclusion isn't what you'd expect.

"Psychologists ??? including me? ?? always have to be looking beyond their own biases. They need to avoid getting so attached to a particular theory or perspective that they go out of their way to protect the theory," Conley said. "Data should be the guide, and you have to look at data in every way you can think of to see if the story you are telling is really the best one."

You can follow LiveScience senior writer Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappas. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience and on Facebook.

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Viola Davis and husband adopt a daughter

Viola Davis is a mom!

The actress and her husband, actor Julian Tennon, recently welcomed a new addition to their family through adoption.

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?The Help? star confirmed her adoption news at ELLE magazine?s Women in Hollywood event on Tuesday night in Los Angeles.

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The 43-year-old actress mentioned that the girl?s name is Genesis during the event, but did not offer up any other details.

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Davis' ?The Help? co-star, Octavia Spencer, told People that she became a mom ??like, two days ago.

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During her speech on Tuesday, Davis told the crowd, ?What keeps me in the business is hope, and that?s the hope that women of color are also part of the narrative. [I?m] sending a telepathic message to you: Every time some young actress of color comes in a room with a character they?re auditioning for that?s not ethnically specific, that you have a space in your brain that can open up and embrace them and allow them in, because I?m telling you, their lives are just as fascinating and multifaceted.?

Davis and her husband announced their plans to adopt in August.

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This is the first child for the actress.

Tennon has two other children from a previous relationship.

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Ice Cream Sandwich: What happens next

Take This

Well, now. That was quite the Android 4.0 launch in Hong Kong, eh? Now that the dust has settled ever so slightly on the Ice Cream Sandwich event, let's take a look at what's going to happen in the coming weeks and months. (Hint: It ain't all gonna happen this week.)

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Quantum Levitation-where science videos don't get any cooler!

This video demonstrating the power of superconductivity has been making the rounds this week and is an example of how video is really the best way to capture and share with thousands of viewers the amazing power of science!

You will notice that the video is a demonstration without the science explained live. It was a missed opportunity in my opinion. Thankfully, Tel-Aviv University, who is responsible for the demonstration, has posted an explanation of the Meissner Effect as demonstrated by a liquid nitrogen cooled disc composed of a sapphire wafer coated thinly with yttrium barium copper oxide. Supercondutivity and magnetism are usually in opposition to each other. In this case, where the disc is extremely thin, it?s possible for the magnetic field to penetrate the disc via tiny flux tubes which somehow (biologist hand-waving here) are what?s responsible for the levitation we see over the track. Jump below the video to read their explanation and catch a Quicktime video of the physics.

The video is courtesy of the?Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), representing the science center and museum field worldwide. ?You can follow them on Twitter at?@ScienceCenters.

The explanation from Tel -Aviv University?s website:

?Superconductivity and magnetic field do not like each other. When possible, the superconductor will expel all the magnetic field from inside. This is the?Meissner effect. In our case, since the superconductor is extremely thin, the magnetic field DOES penetrates. However, it does that in discrete quantities (this is quantum physics after all! ) called flux tubes.

View the Quicktime link to what is happening:?Magnetic field expulsion

Inside each magnetic flux tube superconductivity is locally destroyed. The superconductor will try to keep the magnetic tubes pinned in weak areas (e.g. grain boundaries). Any spatial movement of the superconductor will cause the flux tubes to move. In order to prevent that the superconductor remains ?trapped? in midair.?

Even if the explanation opportunity was missed in the video, the awe inducing wonder of the demonstration will hopefully capture the attention of non-scientific viewers and intrigue them enough to explore further!

Levitation and Field Lines

Image is courtesy of Tel-Aviv Univeristy http://www.quantumlevitation.com/levitation/The_physics.html

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Camera rig shots reveal Galaxy Nexus with Verizon 4G LTE

4G LTE Galaxy Nexus

If you've watched last night's Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich unveiling, you'll recall the sequence where the phone was hooked up to a camera rig and used to capture some impressive-looking time-lapse videos. Now, some behind-the-scenes photos of the rig, uploaded by Google's Romain Guy, have given us our best indication yet that Big Red will indeed be getting an LTE version of the upcoming Nexus. Yep, that's Verizon's 4G LTE logo on the battery door.

Of course, that shouldn't really surprise anyone, right?

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'Hannah Montana' star busted for DUI

Hannah Montana's sidekick now has his very own rap sheet.

Mitchel Musso, aka Oliver Oken on the Miley Cyrus-fronted series, was arrested for drunken driving yesterday in the L.A. suburb of Burbank.

Did we mention that Musso is only 20? So what kind of trouble is he in?

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It's pretty serious.

The actor was popped early Sunday morning, according to Burbank Police Sgt. Sean Kelley confirms to E! News, at the scene of an unrelated traffic accident.

"An officer was directing traffic and Musso failed to slow down when coming to the intersection," says Kelley. "He didn't obey instructions and was pulled over. A DUI investigation was held and he was given a field sobriety test

"Musso is 20 years old so any alcohol in his system is illegal. He was well over the 0.08 limit."

Musso was arrested at 3:43 a.m., taken to jail and bail was set at $5,000.

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Musso spent a few hours drying out and was ultimately allowed freed without having to pay the bail because, Kelley says, "he had no warrants or anything like that."

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Musso, who released an album in 2009, is also known for voicing Jeremy Johnson on the Disney Channel series "Phineas and Ferb" and is the host of Disney Channel's reality series "PrankStars."

No immediate comment from reps for Musso or Disney.

There is one bright spot, however: Burbank police aren't releasing his mug shot.

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8 foreigners killed in Botswana plane crash (AP)

GABORONE, Botswana ? A light aircraft carrying 12 people crashed after takeoff and burst into flames in Botswana, killing the British pilot and seven tourists from France, Sweden and Britain, an official said Monday.

The crash occurred Friday in the southern African nation's remote Okavango Delta, Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Modipe Nkwe said. He said two French tourists and two Botswana citizens survived.

The cause is under investigation, Nkwe said as news of the incident emerged Monday.

The chartered Cessna 208, operated by local company Moremi Air, crashed shortly after takeoff from Xakanaka airfield in northern Botswana and was ablaze soon after. The plane had been headed for Pom Pom, a camp site in the delta that is famous for its birds and wildlife, including elephants.

Nkwe said the plane was carrying 11 passengers and the pilot. The seven tourists who perished included a British man, three French women and three Swedes ? two women and a man.

The survivors were airlifted for medical care to Johannesburg in neighboring South Africa, he said.

France's Foreign Ministry said one French survivor remains hospitalized in Johannesburg with burns, though doctors say her life is not in danger. It said the other French survivor has returned home.

Britain's Foreign Office confirmed that two British nationals had died in the crash. It said that next of kin have been informed and provided with consular assistance, but declined to give further details.

In Sweden, however, the Foreign Ministry said it has not been able to confirm the reports but are looking into the matter.

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Associated Press Writers Michelle Faul in Johannesburg, Cassandra Vinograd in London, Jenny Barchfield in Paris, and Karl Ritter in Stockholm contributed to this report.

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Obama gets back on the bus for trip to NC, Va. (AP)

WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama is targeting vital North Carolina and Virginia this week, as he kicks off a three-day bus tour that is as much about campaigning for his jobs bill as it is shoring up support in two southern states he wrested from Republican control four years ago.

Obama's 2008 victories in North Carolina and Virginia were due in large part to the states' changing demographics and his campaign's ability to boost voter turnout among young people and African-Americans. But nearly three years after his historic election, the president's approval ratings in both states are sagging, in line with the national trend.

A Quinnipiac University poll out earlier this month put Obama's approval rating in Virginia at 45 percent, with 52 percent disapproving. The same poll showed 83 percent of Virginians were dissatisfied with the direction of the country. In North Carolina, Obama has a 42 percent approval rating, according to an Elon University poll conducted this month. Most national polls put Obama's approval rating in the mid- to low-forties.

The president's bus tour comes as the battle in Washington over his jobs plan enters a new phase. While Obama had demanded lawmakers pass the $447 billion measure in its entirety, Senate Republicans have blocked those efforts, leaving the president and his Democratic allies to fight for the bill's proposals piece by piece.

Since announcing his plan for putting Americans back to work last month, Obama has been traveling the country trying to build public support for his initiatives. The president's itinerary has focused heavily on swing states, underscoring the degree to which what happens with his job bill is linked to his re-election prospects.

Obama starts his bus tour with a speech in Asheville, N.C., Monday morning and he will speak again later that day at a high school in Millers Creek, N.C. He'll also speak Tuesday at a community college in Jamestown, N.C., and make stops in the southern Virginia cites of Emporia and Hampton.

While Obama won handily in Virginia in 2008, he barely squeaked out a victory in North Carolina, winning the state by less than a percentage point. John Davis, a longtime political analyst in North Carolina, said Obama won there in part because his campaign identified the state as a potential battleground early and established a dominant ground game, while the Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, was focused elsewhere.

But with North Carolina now firmly on the political establishment's radar, Davis said thinks Obama will have a much harder time holding the state next November.

"This time I think Obama loses the advantage of a surprise like he pulled off in 2008," he said.

The president faces significant obstacles in Virginia as well. While Democrats had hoped Obama's victory signaled Virginia's shift to a blue state, momentum has since strongly turned back in favor of Republicans, most notably with Gov. Bob McDonald's win in 2009.

That shift has some Virginia Democrats, especially state legislators running in next month's General Assembly elections, less than thrilled about Obama heading to their state this week. In coal-mining southwestern Virginia, Democratic state Sen. Phil Puckett has flatly renounced the president. With Republicans running television ads and erecting billboards showing Puckett campaigning for Obama in 2008, Puckett said in a television interview he would not support Obama in 2012.

The White House insists the president is focused more on the economy than elections. With the nation's unemployment rate stuck at 9.1 percent, Obama's goal this week will be to convince the public that his jobs plan will put out-of-work teachers, police officers and firefighters back on the job, while also repairing crumbling roads and bridges.

By breaking up elements of the plan into individual bills, the White House wants to force Republicans to voice their opposition one by one ? part of the Obama administration's strategy of hanging blame for any eventual failure of the president's economic policies on GOP obstructionism.

"Each time we're going to ask Republicans to support the bill," Obama said last week. "And if they don't want to support the bill, they've got to answer not just to us, but also the American people as to why they wouldn't."

White House spokesman Jay Carney said he doesn't expect the president to have a significantly revamped message on the road now that he's selling individual components of his bill, not the full package.

"You can expect to hear the president making the case for the need to take action until Congress takes action on every item," he said Friday.

The president will be ditching Air Force One for much of his trip this week, traveling instead on a $1.1 million bus purchased by the Secret Service. The impenetrable-looking bus is painted all black, with dark tinted windows and flashing red and blue lights. Obama first used the custom-made bus during a similar road trip in August, when he traveled through Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.

Obama's time on the road will take him through small towns and rural swaths of both Virginia and North Carolina. In addition to his scheduled speeches, the president is sure to make unannounced visits to local restaurants or stop to greet supporters gathered along the road to watch his motorcade pass.

The effect is a campaign-style trip that allows the president to engage in a little retail politics, while also garnering the national media coverage typically afforded only to a sitting president.

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Associated Press writers Ken Thomas in Washington, Bob Lewis in Richmond, Va., and Tom Breen in Raleigh, N.C., contributed to this report.

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