London: An influential group of British lawmakers say Rupert Murdoch is unfit to lead his global media empire, in a scathing report that says his company misled Parliament about the scale of phone hacking at one of its tabloids. Parliament's cross-party Culture, Media and Sport committee said on Tuesday that News International, the British newspaper division of Murdoch's News Corp., had deliberately ignored evidence of malpractice, covered up evidence and...
04:42 PM, May 01, 2012
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron has denied allegations of striking a deal with media baron Rupert Murdoch or his son in return for favourable coverage before his government came to power in 2010. The ties between Cameron's government and Murdoch's News Corp are under scrutiny after an inquiry into media ethics raised questions. The inquiry had raised questions about a minister's decision on whether the company should be authorised...
09:09 AM, Apr 30, 2012
London: A defensive David Cameron on Sunday insisted that he had struck "no grand deal" with media baron Rupert Murdoch over the BSkyB takeover bid following last week's revelation of a string of emails exchanged between the office of Culture secretary and News International. Speaking on the widely watched Andrew Marr Show on BBC, the Prime Minister admitted he had sought the support of Murdoch's news organisations, along with other...
05:40 PM, Apr 29, 2012
London: Rupert Murdoch called his News of the World tabloid an "aberration" on Thursday, accusing journalists of hiding phone-hacking from himself, his son James and his protegee Rebekah Brooks, and said he wished he had shut it down sooner. "The News of the World, to be quite honest, was an aberration, and it's my fault," the media mogul said in a second day of testimony in Britain's High Court on...
04:28 AM, Apr 27, 2012
London: Rupert Murdoch batted away accusations on Wednesday that he used his vast media empire to play puppet master to a succession of British leaders, electrifying a media inquiry that has shaken faith in Prime Minister David Cameron's government. The 81-year-old media mogul's appearance is the high point in an inquiry which has laid bare collusion between ministers and News Corp, reawakening decades of concern over the cozy ties between...
05:03 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Beijing: The 3D version of the famed romance 'Titanic' is expected to set a new first-week box office record on the Chinese mainland, as it already fetched USD 67 million in the first six days after its release. Ticket sales accounted for USD 11.3 million on the first day, while another USD 28.5 million was earned in the following three days. The film's 10-day box office in North America, in...
01:06 PM, Apr 18, 2012
Star Group, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSA.O), has ended its brand association with its Indian television news channel joint venture partner, the company said, blaming the split on regulatory headaches. "Given the current regulatory environment and structural issues ailing the Indian cable and satellite television market and the news genre in particular, Star took this extremely difficult decision to withdraw its brand from the genre," Star India...
10:51 AM, Apr 17, 2012
London: Sky News, a part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire in Britain, on Thursday admitted that it illegally hacked e-mails twice for information, further tarnishing the image of the press baron. The admission is an indication that unethical news gathering practices were not confined to the now closed News of the World, but were more widespread in Murdoch's media holdings in Britain. News of the World has since been closed...
08:19 PM, Apr 05, 2012
London: James Murdoch's exit from the chairmanship of BSkyB moves his father Rupert into the firing line in Britain, just as an inquiry into a phone-hacking scandal turns its focus on his peculiar influence in the country. Rupert Murdoch, News Corp's chief executive, is due to appear before a judge-led inquiry into ethics and standards in the British press, which will be turning its attention to newspaper proprietors and politicians....
03:03 AM, Apr 05, 2012
London: Singed by the phone-hacking scandal, James Murdoch, who resigned as executive chairman of News International in February, will soon step down as the chairman of British satellite broadcaster BSkyB. The younger son of media baron Rupert Murdoch has been facing increasing pressure in the UK over what he knew about phone hacking. He has appeared before MPs twice to explain his position in the controversy that has affected the...
07:13 PM, Apr 03, 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: James Murdoch is stepping down as executive chairman of News Corp's UK newspaper arm, the company said on Wednesday. News Corp said James, the son of 80-year-old media scion Rupert Murdoch, has relinquished his position at News International to focus on the company's international TV business. He will remain deputy chief operating officer of News Corp. James and his role at News International have come under scrutiny amidst Britain's...
08:14 PM, Feb 29, 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: Rupert Murdoch vowed to launch a Sunday edition of his scandal-hit Sun tabloid on Friday in a bid to win over angry staff mounting one of the biggest challenges to his more than 40 years as a proprietor in Britain. Murdoch was in London to reassure employees after the company supplied information to police which led to the arrest of some of the most senior journalists on the paper...
03:39 AM, Feb 18, 2012
London: Rupert Murdoch will face hostile and angry staff when he arrives in Britain this week seeking to face down a growing rebellion within his newspaper business and end the talk that his flagship Sun could close following a string of arrests. Those close to the media mogul expect the 80-year-old to show far more composure and calculation when he addresses journalists on a hostile newsroom floor, compared with his...
04:20 AM, Feb 14, 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
London: British police on Saturday arrested five senior members of staff at News Corporation's flagship newspaper The Sun, the company said, as part of investigations into alleged payments to police by journalists for information. The payments investigation, dubbed Operation Elveden, is part of a wider probe into illegal news gathering practices that have rocked Britain's political, media and police establishments and last year prompted the closure of News Corp's Sunday...
11:44 PM, Feb 11, 2012
London: British Police arrested four current and former staff of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling Sun tabloid plus a policeman on Saturday as part of an investigation into suspected payments by journalists to officers, police and the newspaper's publisher said. Police also searched the paper's London offices at publisher News International, News Corp's British arm, in a corruption probe linked to a continuing investigation into phone hacking at its now closed News...
07:09 AM, Jan 29, 2012
London: At least 13 inquiries and legal cases are being conducted into questions raised by the unethical practice of phone-hacking at the now defunct News of the World, with media baron Rupert Murdoch's empire in the UK coming under unprecedented scrutiny. The inquiries are being conducted at various levels, with some going into issues wider than phone-hacking and other unethical news gathering practices in British journalism. The issue, which blew...
05:47 PM, Jan 20, 2012
London: Media baron Rupert Murdoch's group on Thursday agreed to a multi-million pounds out-of-court-settlement with 19 high-profile victims who had filed cases when they realised their phones had been hacked by the now defunct News of the World. Ex-Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott and actor Jude Law are among those who have agreed to the settlement. Footballer Ashley Cole and Labour MP Chris Bryant have also reached settlements. Most people...
06:04 PM, Jan 19, 2012
