Detectives in England investigating phone hacking and police bribery at the defunct British tabloid News of the World on Tuesday arrested the newspaper's former managing editor.

Police and British media said the 71-year-old man who was arrested is the

latest in a string of executives to be questioned about wrongdoing at the newspaper owned by international media magnate Rubert Murdoch.

Sky News, which is 39 percent owned by Murdoch's News Corp, identified the man arrested as former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner. Kuttner was managing editor of the News of the World for 22 years until he resigned in July 2009.

Police have so far arrested 11 people since launching a new hacking probe in January. Those arrested include Murdoch's former British newspaper chief Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, an ex-News of the World editor who went on to be Prime Minister David Cameron's communications chief.

The scandal has sent shock waves through the media baron's global News Corp empire, prompting the group to drop its bid for British pay-TV giant BSkyB.

It has also triggered the resignation of Britain's most senior police officers amid claims of too-cozy ties between the London force and News International.

（中国日报网英语点津 Helen 编辑）

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