Police are investigating alleged email interception by Rupert Murdoch's Times of London, a British lawmaker says — dragging Britain's oldest national newspaper into the broadening scandal over press wrongdoing.

Queen Elizabeth says Britain's government plans to finally reform the centuries-old House of Lords and introduce direct elections for its members.

The British Library has paid £9 million ($14.3 million Cdn) to acquire the St. Cuthbert Gospel, a remarkably well-preserved survivor of seventh-century Britain described by the library as the oldest European book to survive fully intact.