US court backs mobile phone privacy
Craig TaylorThe US Supreme Court has ruled police cannot search the digital contents of mobile phones of those arrested without a warrant. BBC News – US & Canada
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Mormons oust ‘women priest’ backer
The Mormon Church has excommunicated a prominent backer of the ordination of women priests for contravening official doctrine, her supporters say. BBC News – US & Canada
Canada airlift prisoners recaptured
Canadian police recapture three prisoners in Montreal who escaped by helicopter from a jail outside Quebec City. BBC News – US & Canada
Payout in Central Park jogger case
New York City is to pay $ 40m (£24m) to five men wrongfully convicted in the brutal 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park. BBC News – US & Canada
US to send military advisers to Iraq
President Obama says the US is sending up to 300 “military advisers” to Iraq and may take “targeted military action” against Islamist insurgents. BBC News – US & Canada
Net child porn at ‘epidemic’ scale
The internet trade in images that show child sex abuse is now “an epidemic”, according to the head of the global initiative to combat the problem. BBC News – US & Canada