News Headlines - 19 September 2011

▽Submarine shooting sailor pleads guilty to murder of fellow officer - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/19/submarine-shooting-sailor-murder-officer
A Royal Navy sailor fascinated with violent video games and "gangsta rap" has pleaded guilty to shooting dead an officer on board a nuclear submarine and trying to murder three other crewmates.

▽Anti-terrorist police arrest seven in Birmingham - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/19/anti-terrorist-police-arrest-birmingham
Counter-terrorism officers have arrested seven people, fearing they were in the "advanced stages" of planning a mass-casualty attack on the British mainland, the Guardian has learned.
The arrests were made in Birmingham, with six men arrested under counter-terrorism laws, and a woman arrested on suspicion of failing to disclose information.

▽Hugh Grant: phone hacking scandal 'can only be solved by politicians' - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8774366/Hugh-Grant-phone-hacking-scandal-can-only-be-solved-by-politicians.html
British actor Hugh Grant appeals to delegates at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference to introduce legislation to curb press intrusion into privacy.

▽£12bn hole in UK public finances - Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f5981c68-dee0-11e0-9130-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1YPYhTh7c
Ministers are set to be told this autumn that a £12bn black hole has opened in the public finances, in a forecast that threatens to derail the coalition’s deficit reduction strategy and prolong austerity well into the next parliament.

▽Google's Eric Schmidt to challenge monopoly claims in Senate - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/19/google-eric-schmidt-monopoly-senate
The Google executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, will appear before a US Senate committee on Wednesday to argue that the internet giant is not abusing its position as the world's most popular search engine.