News Headlines - 10 July 2011

▽Focus of phone-hacking investigation shifts to Les Hinton - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/10/phone-hacking-investigation-les-hinton
Les Hinton, Rupert Murdoch's lifelong lieutenant and closest adviser, faces questions over whether he saw a 2007 internal News International report, which found evidence that phone hacking was more widespread than admitted by the company, before he testified to a parliamentary committee that the practice was limited to a single reporter.

▽BSkyB under pressure as politics hijack merger - Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/10/us-newscorp-bskyb-shares-idUSTRE7692ZJ20110710
BSkyB shares will be under pressure again in the coming week after a weekend in which politicians ramped up their rhetoric to derail a proposed $14 billion takeover by U.S. media conglomerate News Corp.

▽Atlantis shuttle arrives for last time at International Space Station - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/10/atlantis-shuttle-arrives-international-space-station
The US space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday to deliver a last batch of supplies to the orbiting outpost on the final flight of the shuttle programme.

▽Secret agents raid Apple store webcam 'artist' - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14080438
The US Secret Service has raided the home of an artist who collected images from webcams in a New York Apple store.

▽Scientists decode potato genome - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14096485
An international team has decoded the full DNA sequence of the potato for the first time.
The breakthrough holds out the promise of boosting harvests of one of the world's most important staple crops.