London: British media say Rupert Murdoch is meeting with the family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, whose phone was hacked by the now-defunct tabloid News of the World. The BBC showed images of the media mogul walking into a building to attend the meeting. The session came hours after Murdoch released a copy of an apology that will be printed this weekend in British newspapers. The ad signed by Murdoch...
09:11 PM, Jul 15, 2011
London: Britain's celebrities might no longer have to worry about the News of the World hacking phones or rifling their bins, but the manner of the paper's demise shows controlling information is getting much more difficult. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp may have hoped that cozy relationships with Britain's police and political parties would be enough to avoid too close an investigation of persistent allegations that the paper's journalists had broken...
11:02 AM, Jul 15, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch on Thursday caved in to pressure from Britain's Parliament to answer questions over alleged crimes at one of his newspapers, setting up a showdown with lawmakers keen to break the media mogul's grip on politics. British police arrested a ninth suspect, named by media as a former deputy editor of Murdoch's News of the World, adding weight to a government call for the media regulator to decide...
02:16 AM, Jul 15, 2011
New York: The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp sought to hack into the phones of September 11 victims, a law enforcement official said on Thursday. The official spoke on Thursday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. New York City-based News Corp has been in crisis mode. A rival newspaper reported last...
01:04 AM, Jul 15, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch's dream of controlling a British broadcasting behemoth has evaporated with the withdrawal of his bid for British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) - the latest, biggest casualty of what Prime Minister David Cameron called the hacking 'firestorm' sweeping through British politics, media and police. Cameron appointed a senior judge to lead an inquiry into the phone hacking and police bribery scandal engulfing Murdoch's British newspapers, and promised it would...
10:10 AM, Jul 14, 2011
London: News Corp has withdrawn its $12 billion bid to buy out the 61 per cent of broadcaster BSkyB it does not already own after the government turned on Rupert Murdoch over a phone hacking scandal. The British parliament was due to pass a non-binding vote on Wednesday afternoon to tell Rupert Murdoch to drop his bid after News Corp's UK newspaper arm News International was engulfed in a scandal...
07:39 PM, Jul 13, 2011
London: Summoning a degree of national unity rarely seen outside times of war, Britain's Parliament will tell Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday to drop an expansion plan for his media empire while police probe possible crimes by his journalists. In a watershed moment for British politics, a barrier of fear of the Murdoch press that affected all parties has collapsed under the weight of public outrage. It has triggered a stampede...
04:36 PM, Jul 13, 2011
The British Parliament will back a motion to urge News Of the World owner Rupert Murdoch to drop plans to buy out British Sky Broadcasting. ...
10:20 AM, Jul 13, 2011
London: He's looked defensive, he's looked outraged, he's looked scared. But recently, Prime Minister David Cameron has rarely looked like he's in charge. The British leader has lost his confident aura as his friendships with figures central to the tabloid hacking scandal hand his government its biggest crisis since he entered No. 10 Downing Street. Questions are mounting about whether the scandal will poison his premiership. From the moment allegations...
02:09 AM, Jul 13, 2011
London: The British government joined efforts to block Rupert Murdoch's bid for broadcaster BSkyB on Tuesday, dashing his hopes of a rapid expansion in television as the scandal over phone-hacking by one of his newspapers widened. By completing a phalanx of resistance to the global media magnate that includes all Britain's main parties, the move by Prime Minister David Cameron showed how far a man long feared and courted by...
01:58 AM, Jul 13, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch's media empire sank into deeper controversy with former British prime minister Gordon Brown accusing newspapers from the group of using 'known criminals' to hack into his personal information. It is not only Brown but other ministers and lawmakers who are up in arms against the 80-year-old media baron and spate of allegations against the group have plunged BSkyB shares six days in running. Brown told BBC that...
05:02 PM, Jul 12, 2011
London: Allegations that former British prime minister Gordon Brown was a target of illegal data gathering by Rupert Murdoch's newspapers have piled pressure on the media baron as he tries to prevent investors pulling out of his News Corp empire. Murdoch and the British government tried to draw the financial and political sting from a newspaper phone-hacking scandal by referring his $14 billion bid for the profitable pay-tv operator BSkyB...
08:54 AM, Jul 12, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch's media empire was besieged on Monday by accusations that two more of his British newspapers engaged in privacy violations that included accessing former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's bank account information and stealing the medical records of his seriously ill baby son. If proven true, the charges by rival newspapers appear certain to dramatically increase the pressure on Murdoch's News Corp. from a scandal that seems to grow...
03:40 AM, Jul 12, 2011
London: Police have said that former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown may have been a victim of phone hacking by an investigator working for British newspapers, his spokeswoman said on Monday. The Guardian and Independent newspapers reported on their websites earlier on Monday that journalists from Rupert Murdoch's newspapers repeatedly tried to hack into Brown's voicemails when he was finance minister and prime minister. The Guardian said News International reporters...
02:35 AM, Jul 12, 2011
London: Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Monday that News of the World journalists had offered to pay a New York police officer to retrieve the private phone records of victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Citing an unidentified source, the newspaper said journalists had wanted the phone numbers of the dead as well as details of the calls they had made and received in the days leading to...
12:50 PM, Jul 11, 2011
London: Britain's biggest selling weekly newspaper hit the streets for the last time on Sunday, victim of a phone hacking scandal that has sent tremors through the British political establishment and may cost media baron Rupert Murdoch a lucrative broadcasting deal. Best known for its lurid headlines exposing the misdemeanours of the rich, royal and famous, the last News of the World said simply "Thank You & Goodbye" over a...
07:40 PM, Jul 10, 2011
London: Britain's best-selling Sunday tabloid the 'News of the World' signed off with a simple front page message - "Thank You & Goodbye" - leaving the media establishment here reeling from the expanding phone-hacking scandal that brought down the muckraking newspaper after 168 years. Journalists crafted the newspaper's own obituary before sending the tabloid's final edition to the printing presses on Saturday night, apologising for letting its readers down but...
08:13 AM, Jul 10, 2011
Sun Valley: Rupert Murdoch said on Saturday the decision to close the embattled "News of the World" tabloid was "a collective decision." Murdoch spoke briefly as he entered the last day of the annual Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, even as a deepening phone hacking scandal threatens the British operations of his media company, News Corp. Walking with his wife, Wendi, and his son, Lachlan, Murdoch...
10:17 PM, Jul 09, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch flies to London on Saturday to deal with the escalating phone-hacking crisis engulfing his British newspapers business, according to two people familiar with his plans. The arrival of the 80-year-old News Corp chief executive follows the shock announcement on Thursday that he is shutting down the News of the World, the 168-year-old best-selling on Sunday tabloid newspaper at the centre of the scandal. News Corp declined to...
09:23 AM, Jul 09, 2011
London: Police arrested David Cameron's former spokesman on Friday over the scandal that has shut down Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, forcing the prime minister to defend his judgment while promising new controls on the British press. As Cameron fielded hostile questions over why he had hired the paper's former editor Andy Coulson in 2007, despite knowing that one of his journalists had been jailed for hacking into voicemails...
03:20 AM, Jul 09, 2011
