What's happening with Britain's phone hacking scandal? "Difficult though it may be to believe, documents released by the Commons culture, media and sport select committee are at least as damaging to News International management as the revelation last month that Milly Dowler's voicemail had been hacked. That news prompted disgrace and resignations: now we are looking at possible criminal charges at senior levels. Assuming that these documents hold up to scrutiny, a whole raft of executives – not journalists or editors, but well above that level – are surely likely to be questioned by police investigating the possibility of a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Arrests in [...]

Wendi Deng: HOLD MY HOOPS. Don't you wish she was testifying instead, instead of Rupert Murdoch or poor, poor dim James? OH WENDI.

Continuing developments in Britain's phone hacking scandal: "Rebekah Brooks, the News International chief executive, has resigned after 11 days of mounting political pressure over the phone-hacking scandal. Brooks announced her decision to News International staff in Wapping just before 10am on Friday, saying her resignation had been accepted by Rupert and James Murdoch. She said she no longer wanted to be a 'focal point of the debate' surrounding the company's future and reputation. She stopped short of issuing a personal apology."

In related news: "In response to requests from members of Congress and to at least one news report, the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York opened [...]

Britain's phone hacking scandal continues: "James Murdoch has been accused of misleading the parliamentary select committee this week in relation to phone hacking, igniting yet another fire for the embattled News International boss to extinguish. In a highly damaging broadside, two former News of the World senior executives claimed the evidence Murdoch gave to the committee on Tuesday in relation to an out-of-court settlement to Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers Association, was 'mistaken'."

Labour MP Tom Watson has asked Scotland Yard to investigate the claims: "This is the most significant moment of two years of investigation into phone hacking. If [Colin Myler and [...]

The Internet will explode quite soon, as Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks all go before a Parliament committee's inquiry this morning, circa 9:30 a.m. east coast time. It's a hearing almost two years in the making! ("So, yeah, this is gonna be a pretty big story," we wrote in July of 2009!) That being said, the committee is not as toothsome as an American congressional hearing would be, which isn't even all that toothsome anyway. Still, people expect Murdoch to come in hot, throwing anyone to the wolves that he can. Perhaps he might resign as CEO! Meanwhile, while we wait, let's look at some [...]

Cameras cut off immediately at the Murdoch hearing as people in the room yelled—from what we could see, it looks like someone charged Rupert Murdoch from the audience. More as everyone figures out what the heck just happened. According to Josh Robin, who just rewound the tape: "Just looked at feed again – Rupert Murdoch was approached and seemingly attacked but does not appear to have been knocked down." THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A PIE ATTACK. Also: "Murdoch attacker taken out of the room in hand-cuffs," says Sky News. Apparently Wendi Deng got a swing in at the person? "Rupert Murdoch was pelted with a white substance [...]

More in the continuing, fast-paced fallout from Britain's phone hacking scandal: Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was arrested over the weekend. Britain's top police officer resigned yesterday, and an assistant commissioner did the same today. Tomorrow, Rupert Murdoch and his son James (and, possibly, Brooks) will appear before the House of Commons. There's plenty more here.