New Arrest in British Hacking Scandal

LONDON — The uproar enveloping Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper subsidiary in Britain took a new turn on Tuesday with another arrest, the 11th in recent months, in the police inquiry into alleged phone hacking and illegal payments to police officers at the now-defunct News of the World.

The police said only that a 71-year-old man had been taken into custody at a north London police station. But several British news organizations, including The Guardian newspaper and Sky TV, part of the Murdoch empire, identified the man as Stuart Kuttner, who resigned in 2009 as the newspaper’s managing editor.

The 168-year-old tabloid, Britain’s highest-selling Sunday newspaper, was shut down last month by News International, the Murdoch subsidiary, amid profuse apologies from Mr. Murdoch and other executives. They acknowledged a widespread pattern at the tabloid of hacking into the cellphone voice messages of politicians, entertainment celebrities, sports stars and crime victims, including a 13-year-old schoolgirl who had been abducted and murdered.