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: Key former aides of media baron Rupert Murdoch and Prime Minister David Cameron were on Tuesday charged with criminal conspiracy to hack into phones of individuals and other charges, taking the year-long phone-hacking row to a new level. Rebekah Brooks, Murdoch's high-profile former aide and editor of the News of the World, and Andy Coulson, who was Cameron's director of communications, are among eight people who face a total...
04:45 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Brooks has in the past few days been questioned by the Leveson inquiry into media standards and ethics. ...
03:19 PM, May 15, 2012
London: Rebekah Brooks, a former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm, has been charged with perverting the course of justice over a phone hacking scandal at one of the media mogul's papers, British prosecutors said on Tuesday. "I have concluded ... there is sufficient evidence for there to be a realistic prospect of conviction," said Alison Levitt, Principal Legal Advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions. Also charged...
02:50 PM, May 15, 2012
London: Known for using the internet and new media, British Prime Minister David Cameron somehow believed that 'LOL' meant 'Lots of Love' when sending texts to ex-editor of the News of the World Rebekah Brooks, until she enlightened him that it actually meant 'Laugh Out Loud'. Brooks, 43, who was arrested for allegations of perjury and in relation to phone-hacking scandal at the now-defunct tabloid of Media mogul Rupert Murdoch,...
10:43 AM, May 12, 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
Los Angeles: British lawmaker Tom Watson grilled News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch about covert surveillance techniques by company employees as News Corp held its first shareholders meeting following a phone-hacking scandal. More than 100 people demonstrated on Friday outside the lot of News Corp's Fox Studios. Watson asked Murdoch whether he was aware that a person who had left prison was hired by News Corp and hacked the computer of...
03:53 AM, Oct 22, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch's News of the World hacked extensively into the voice mail of a minister in Britain's former Labour government, according to three people familiar with the matter. The unauthorized access to voice mails left for Denis MacShane in 2004 and 2005, as he served as Minister for Europe, is one of a handful of cases to surface involving a serving government official in the phone hacking scandal that...
01:17 AM, Sep 23, 2011
London: Britain's parliament on Tuesday said it would recall Rupert Murdoch's son James to answer more questions in its probe into News Corp's hacking scandal and US shareholders raised the stakes in a legal battle with the company. The two moves reignited a long-running controversy that has already damaged the British establishment and threatened the media magnate's once untouchable political influence. British politicians said they would call James Murdoch for...
02:27 AM, Sep 14, 2011
London: British lawmakers on Friday demanded that James Murdoch clarify why testimony he gave to a parliamentary committee probing the phone hacking scandal conflicted with a statement from two former executives. Murdoch, deputy chief operating officer of media giant News Corp., and his father, tycoon Rupert Murdoch, testified about the widening allegations of phone tapping and bribery at the Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid. The demand from legislators came...
03:04 AM, Jul 30, 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
New York: With executives from News Corp and some of its subsidiaries heading for the exits, legal bills from the phone-hacking scandal rocking the company are no doubt stacking up. But depending on the companies' directors and officers insurance coverage, News Corp and its divisions aren't likely to be responsible for paying the lawyers' fees. At least for now. The D&O insurance policies at companies like News Corp cover the...
09:12 AM, Jul 21, 2011
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12:54 AM, Jul 21, 2011
New Delhi: A lot of questions and lot of explanations were presented by Rupert Murdoch and his team at the hearing of the hacking scandal surrounding his media empire in front of the House of Commons on Tuesday. However not all of the explanations were convincing enough. Murdoch on Tuesday told the House that sitting in front of them explaining the entire hacking scandal was the most humble day of...
07:35 AM, Jul 20, 2011
New Delhi: Rupert Murdoch knows something about power and how to wield it. In Britain, the media magnate's backing was long seen as a prerequisite for anyone hoping to become prime minister; in the United States Murdoch's Fox News has helped drive debate and the growth of the right-wing Tea Party. In fast-growing Asia, though, Murdoch has considerably less clout. Take India, where the 80-year-old has made frequent, whirlwind visits...
01:21 AM, Jul 20, 2011
Catch the day's top stories on India at 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai. ...
11:41 PM, Jul 19, 2011
On 'Talking Point' Rajdeep Sardesai asks, 'Will our media ever match UK's standard of accountability'. ...
11:40 PM, Jul 19, 2011
London: After nearly three hours of testimony from Rupert and James Murdoch, former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has taken her place at a hearing on phone hacking. Brooks, who resigned last week amid the widening scandal, began her testimony with an apology for what took place at the now-defunct News of the World. She told lawmakers she intends to answer their questions as openly as possible while remaining...
10:34 PM, Jul 19, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch told the British parliament on Tuesday that giving evidence on the phone-hacking and corruption scandal that is engulfing his global media empire was "the most humble day of my life". Sitting next to his son James, who opened the much-awaited proceedings in a packed committee room at Westminster by apologizing to victims of voicemail hacking, the 80-year-old chief executive of News Corp interjected: "I would just like...
07:17 PM, Jul 19, 2011
