London: Britain's prosecutors say The Sun tabloid's politics editor Clodagh Hartley has been charged over a conspiracy to pay thousands of pounds worth of bribes to a press officer working in the British government's tax department.
Prosecutors say The Sun paid bribes to press officer Jonathan Hall in return for information about unannounced spending plans, deficit reduction work, and policy decisions. Hall, 51, was also charged in relation to the payments.
Hartley, 38, was arrested in 2012 as part of a sprawling bribery probe linked to Britain's phone hacking scandal. The investigation has already ensnared some of The Sun's most senior staffers....
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09:40 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The hearing in the UK phone hacking scandal will begin on Monday. Disgraced former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks is expected to appear in a London court. Brooks faces three phone-hacking charges, including allegedly intercepting messages of Milly Dowler, the 13-year-old schoolgirl who was abducted and murdered in 2002. Brooks is a close aide of media baron Rupert Murdoch. The others charged, including Prime Minister David...
06:23 AM, Sep 03, 2012
London: News Corp's Rupert Murdoch has stepped down from a string of boards overseeing the Sun, Times and Sunday Times newspapers in Britain, the company said in an internal memo on Saturday. The company described the news as a "corporate housecleaning exercise" linked to the announcement in June that News Corp would split into two separate companies: a smaller publishing division and a much larger entertainment and TV group. But...
02:59 AM, Jul 22, 2012
London: Police arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor and close associate to Rupert Murdoch, for a second time on Tuesday in a new round of detentions in Britain's phone-hacking scandal, Sky News reported. British police confirmed they had held five men and one woman in dawn raids across the country on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, with the woman described as 43-years-old...
06:18 PM, Mar 13, 2012
London: The wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is suing Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper company over phone hacking, her lawyer said Wednesday. Cherie Blair was suing "in relation to the unlawful interception of her voicemails," lawyer Graham Atkins said in an email, making her one of the most high-profile people to have challenged Murdoch's News International over the illegal eavesdropping campaign waged against politicians, celebrities, athletes and others...
09:17 AM, Feb 23, 2012
London: Britain's biggest-selling newspaper was fighting to contain the damage after five employees at The Sun tabloid were arrested on Saturday in an inquiry into the alleged payment of bribes to police and other officials. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which owns the newspaper, said police had searched their homes and the group's London offices, potentially deepening the scandal over British tabloid wrongdoing. The Sun's deputy editor Geoff Webster, picture editor...
12:02 PM, Feb 12, 2012
British police arrested 4 Sun newspaper journalists in the phone-hacking controversy. ...
09:38 AM, Jan 29, 2012
London: James Murdoch has resigned from the boards of the companies that publish its British newspapers including the now-defunct News of the World tabloid at the center of the phone hacking sandal, regulatory filings show. The London Evening Standard newspaper said Murdoch would remain as chairman of the News International division, the News Corp unit that houses its British newspapers, and said the news should not be interpreted as a...
07:36 PM, Nov 23, 2011
London: There was more bad news for media baron Rupert Murdoch on Friday as lawyers representing the murdered British teenager Milly Dowler said they would soon launch legal action against News Corp in the United States. It was the report that 13-year-old Dowler's phone was tapped allegedly at the behest of the News of the World that proved a tipping point and led to a series of events, including the...
07:29 PM, Sep 23, 2011
London: Bernard Hogan-Howe, the acting deputy commissioner for Britain's Metropolitan Police, has been named the new head of the force, the government said on Monday. Hogan-Howe will fill the gap left by former Met police chief Paul Stephenson and former assistant commissioner John Yates, who both resigned in quick succession in July following the British tabloid News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Reporting on the scandal has led to allegations...
12:13 AM, Sep 13, 2011
London: In a fresh development in Britain's phone hacking scandal, a police officer has been arrested in relation to leaks during investigation into the unethical news gathering practices at the now defunct News of the World tabloid. The 51-year-old detective constable was arrested while at work and bailed as part of continuing investigations by Scotland Yard. He has also been suspended. A second man, aged 35, has been arrested by...
08:29 AM, Aug 20, 2011
London: The circulation of British tabloids has shot up after media baron Rupert Murdoch closed down News of the World in July until then Britain's largest selling Sunday paper in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, latest industry figures show. The Sunday Mirror picked up the most new customers with average sales for July of 1,786,454 copies, almost 700,000 more than in June. Daily Star Sunday was the big winner...
06:22 PM, Aug 13, 2011
London: Greg Miskiw, former news editor of the now defunct News of the World, was arrested on Wednesday by the Scotland Yard team investigating phone-hacking at newspaper titles owned by Rupert Murdoch's News International. Miskiw, 61, was arrested on suspicion of phone hacking, Scotland Yard said. He was arrested after visiting a police station by appointment by officers working on Operation Weeting. Miskiw was arrested on suspicion of unlawful interception...
07:59 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Los Angeles: Elisabeth Murdoch, the daughter of News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch, has delayed taking her seat on the News Corp board, a sign the company is trying to duck criticism that the publicly traded company is run like a family dynasty. Such criticism reached new heights after a phone-hacking scandal in Britain brought the role of top management into question. The scandal has put in doubt the corporate future...
02:07 PM, Aug 06, 2011
London: Stuart Kuttner, managing editor of the News of the World for 22 years, was arrested and later freed on bail on Tuesday over a phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct tabloid that has rattled Britain's establishment, a source close to the case said. Police said a 71-year-old man had been released on bail to an unspecified date later this month after being arrested on suspicion of corruption and conspiring to...
03:02 AM, Aug 03, 2011
New York: The newspaper reporter who spent years investigating phone hacking claims in Rupert Murdoch's media empire has won a book deal. The Guardian reporter Nick Davies has been signed to write an authoritative account of the News Corp. scandal for Faber and Faber Inc. Financial compensation wasn't disclosed. The book, to be titled "Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught up with the World's Most Powerful Man," will be published...
12:41 PM, Jul 26, 2011
London: Ministers in Britain's coalition government, criticised for being too close to Rupert Murdoch's scandal-hit News Corp, face more scrutiny this week when details of their meetings with the company's executives are published. News Corp executive James Murdoch is also under pressure over his handling of a phone-hacking scandal that has hit the Murdoch family's media empire and could jeopardise his own position at the company. British police are considering...
01:32 AM, Jul 26, 2011
London: Britain's phone-hacking scandal appeared to be spreading to newspaper titles beyond those owned by Rupert Murdoch, with fresh claims dragging the Mirror group into the mire of allegations of eavesdropping on celebrities. In a dramatic turn to the scandal, former journalists at the Mirror group said they witnessed phone hacking at their newspapers and that the practice was "endemic". So far, the allegations had clouded newspapers of the News...
09:16 PM, Jul 23, 2011
London: News Corp executive James Murdoch could face a police investigation into claims he gave "mistaken" testimony to Britain's parliament this week, deepening the legal crisis that has engulfed the Murdoch family's media empire. Prime Minister David Cameron, criticised for his close ties to senior figures at News Corp, said that Murdoch had "clearly got questions to answer in parliament." Police received a letter on Friday from opposition legislator Tom...
01:05 AM, Jul 23, 2011
On 'The Last Word' Karan Thapar examine if the UK phone hacking scandal issue could also happen to India. ...
11:37 PM, Jul 22, 2011
