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 of 19 charges related to phone-hacking.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) on Tuesday said the eight, who were arrested earlier and are currently on bail, have been informed of the charges today.
All eight have been charged with conspiring to intercept communications between 13 October 2001 and 9 August 2006....
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04:45 PM, Jul 24, 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: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News International has reached an agreement to pay 2 million pounds to the family of murdered teenager Milly Dowler, whose phone was hacked for information at the behest of the now defunct News of the World tabloid. Besides, Murdoch is personally donating 1 million pounds to six charity organisations, as agreed earlier this year. The settlement relates to the hacking of Milly s phone messages...
01:58 PM, Oct 22, 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: 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: 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
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
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11:37 PM, Jul 22, 2011
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12:54 AM, Jul 21, 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
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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
New York: Relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks have asked to meet the FBI and the US Justice Department to discuss the agencies' preliminary inquiry into reports that News Corp reporters may have tried to hack the phones of 9/11 victims. US authorities have acknowledged they are looking into a report by Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper that reporters with the rival News of the World offered to pay...
03:31 AM, Jul 19, 2011
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