Police examine 600 new hacking claims at Murdoch paper - report

LONDON (Reuters) - Police are investigating an estimated 600 new allegations of phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World newspaper, Guardian newspaper said on Friday. The news comes at a sensitive time for the media, with a divisive parliamentary vote on how to regulate Britain's famously aggressive newspapers due to be held on Monday. Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing for a form of self-regulation, while the opposition and his Liberal Democrat coalition partners want any new regulatory framework to be backed by new legislation. ...