澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2011-10-25

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The whistle-blower website WikiLeaks is running out of money. It's had to temporarily suspend publishing documents because of the funding crisis. WikiLeaks founder⁵ Julian Assange says restrictions⁶ by US-based financial companies have starved the website of nearly all of its revenue.

 

Rupert Murdoch's former right hand man has defended his claims that phone hacking⁷ at the News of the World was restricted to a single reporter. Les Hinton was making another appearance before the British parliamentary committee investigating the scandal. Mr Hinton was forced to quit as head of Dow Jones and publisher of the Wall Street Journal over the scandal. 

 

Libya's interim⁸ government has bowed to international pressure and ordered an inquiry⁹ into the death of Muammar Gaddafi. They've also stopped the public display of the former dictator's body in Misurata. And Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that more than 50 of Colonel Gaddafi's supporters were executed at a hotel in the city of Sirte. 

 

And the Queen is going to be spending a quieter day in Canberra today after yesterday's whirlwind visit to Brisbane. The Queen and Prince Philip will visit the Australian War Memorial this morning.

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