Times Online: Libel tourists flock to ‘easy’ UK courts

"John Mardas, a Greek citizen and former associate of the Beatles, is fighting a case in the British courts against The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune over articles that he claims falsely represented him as a charlatan. Just 31 people read the relevant articles on the internet in England. The New York Times only sold 177 copies of its newspaper with the disputed article in England, while it was not published in the International Herald Tribune in this country, according to the defendants."

The New York Times paywall comes down

The New York Times is ending the paid-for section of its web site on Wednesday. The move to end the Times Select service had been anticipated for weeks after it was first reported in early August by the rival New York Post. TimesSelect, launched in 2005, gave paying subscribers access to 23 high-profile columnists, as well as [...]