News Headlines - 10 August 2011

▽All police leave is cancelled - Sky News
http://news.sky.com/home/article/16047330
All police leave has been cancelled as the Prime Minister pledged to give officers whatever was needed to combat rioting and looting.

▽Britons use social networking sites to expose rioters - AFP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jv3uMqxPTh9YkIpb5b2XJDjF0hTA?docId=CNG.8c552b16960439c4d35947018cdb7b48.cb1
London's Metropolitan Police made a tentative attempt to use social media to track down suspects, putting up 25 photos of youths breaking into shops and lobbing missiles on photo-sharing site flickr.
But the official effort paled in comparison to the surge of activity by amateur web investigators.

▽New arrest in phone-hacking inquiry - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14480268
A 61-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of phone hacking, Scotland Yard has said.
The BBC understands he is former News of the World news editor, Greg Miskiw.

▽Secret peace talks between US and Taliban collapse over leaks - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8693247/Secret-peace-talks-between-US-and-Taliban-collapse-over-leaks.html
Secret exploratory peace talks between the United States and the Taliban leadership have broken down after details of the negotiations were leaked, Western diplomats have told The Daily Telegraph.

▽Obama to toughen stance on Syria with call for Assad's departure - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/10/obama-syria-assad-departure
The United States is poised to shift its position on Syria by calling on President Bashar al-Assad to step down because of the violence he has inflicted on his own people and his failure to implement meaningful reforms for the last five months.