London: Days of rioting and looting across Britain looked to be cooling on Wednesday after Prime Minister David Cameron's promised a fightback and flooded city streets with police to try to restore order. By 9.30 pm, incidents were limited to isolated skirmishes and standoffs between riot police and groups of youths, after four nights when often unchecked violence had been well under way by nightfall. The capital - host to...
07:42 AM, Aug 11, 2011
London: Days of rioting and looting across Britain looked to be cooling on Wednesday after Prime Minister David Cameron's promised a fightback and flooded city streets with police to try to restore order. By 9.30 pm, incidents were limited to isolated skirmishes and standoffs between riot police and groups of youths, after four nights when often unchecked violence had been well under way by nightfall. The capital - host to...
07:42 AM, Aug 11, 2011
London: From shopkeepers and middle-class writers to Sikh communities and right-wing soccer "fans", Londoners are ready to take action to protect their homes and businesses from rioting. After four nights of violence, many are saying enough is enough and they will stop the looters themselves if the authorities cannot. Police have warned that vigilantes are putting their own safety at risk and could make matters worse. The risks were highlighted...
12:42 AM, Aug 11, 2011
New Delhi: A massive police presence and hundreds of arrests have helped calm the situation in London where riots have raged for the past four days. However, other cities like Birmingham and Manchester are now seeing similar chaos, with mobs looting stores, burning property and attacking police stations. Britain is going through its worst mob violence in decades and now people are coming out on the streets to protect their...
08:12 PM, Aug 10, 2011
London: British cities began on Wednesday to clean up shopping streets littered with debris from a night of looting by gangs of hooded youths copying the tactics of young Londoners who had rampaged through districts of the capital for three nights. London itself was largely quiet on Tuesday night, with some 16,000 police, 10,000 more than on Monday, sent onto the streets in a show of force in districts where...
12:51 PM, Aug 10, 2011
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would recall Parliament from its summer recess for a day on Thursday after rioting swept through London for three consecutive nights. "This is criminality pure and simple," he told reporters on Tuesday outside his Downing Street office after breaking off his annual holiday to return to Britain. "People should be in no doubt that we will do everything necessary to restore order...
04:05 PM, Aug 09, 2011
London: The British Prime Minister David Cameron was to hold crisis talks on Tuesday after three nights of riots, looting and arson by masked, hooded youths that wrecked shopping centers in many parts of London and spread to three other cities. Neighborhoods across the capital faced a massive clean-up of smashed glass, bricks, bottles and gutted buildings as police reinforcements reclaimed the streets from the youths who had coordinated the...
10:26 AM, Aug 09, 2011
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is on a family vacation in Italy, has reportedly returned to a cafe in Tuscany to make up with the waitress he failed to tip during his visit there last week. The 44-year-old Prime Minister went back to the Dolcenero Cafe in Montevarchi town to seek out the waitress, Francesca Ariani, who had not recognised him on his first visit and had asked...
01:46 PM, Aug 08, 2011
London: British MPs seem to be going gaga over 'Twitter', they are spending 1,000 hours a year on the micro-blogging site, and posting some 2,500 tweets in one week, a new research has revealed. The MPs send messages about cats, squidgy cake and Take That. And sometimes about politics. In fact, the number of MPs tweeting - sending messages of 140 characters or fewer - has more than doubled from...
10:17 AM, Jul 31, 2011
London: James Murdoch was unanimously confirmed as chairman by BSkyB's board, winning a reprieve from a phone-hacking scandal that threatens to draw him into multiple investigations, two sources briefed on the board meeting told Reuters. Thursday's meeting of the BSkyB board was its first since the crisis forced News Corp to close the 'News of the World' newspaper, drop a $12 billion bid for BSkyB and offer up James and...
07:29 AM, Jul 29, 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
London: News International chairman James Murdoch has landed himself in a fresh controversy after two of his former employees questioned his testimony to a House of Commons committee, opening another line of inquiry in the messy phone-hacking issue. Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday said James Murdoch had questions to answer to parliament after the two former employees, Colin Myler (editor of News of the World) and Tom Crone (legal...
05:46 PM, Jul 22, 2011
London: Prime Minister David Cameron came under renewed pressure to detail his relations with scandal-hit News Corp on Thursday and the spotlight fell on other newspaper groups when an official said police were reviewing their reporting methods. Facing the worst crisis of his premiership, Cameron appeared to have shored up his authority among Conservative supporters and his Liberal Democrat coalition partners with a confident performance in an emergency parliamentary debate...
12:57 AM, Jul 22, 2011
The News of the World controversy has stretched from the newspaper to Scotland Yard and into the British government, here's a look at the case a day after Rupert Murdoch's testimony and David Cameron's defence. ...
08:36 AM, Jul 21, 2011
London:Prime Minister David Cameron dragged his political foes into Britain's phone-hacking scandal on Wednesday, as he sought to distance himself from his former aide at the heart of the allegations and denied that his staff had tried to thwart police investigations. Cameron, who flew back from Africa early to address the emergency session of Parliament, defended his decision to hire former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his...
01:37 AM, Jul 21, 2011
London: The number of Britons reading The Sunday Mirror tabloid rose 50 per cent last week as those who once bought News Corp's News of the World, closed 10 days ago in the grip of a phone-hacking scandal, looked elsewhere. A survey of over 1,000 people conducted by Kantar Media showed that readership for the Mail on Sunday was also up 38 per cent on the previous week, following an...
09:27 PM, Jul 20, 2011
London: Prime Minister David Cameron emphatically denied claims that his staff tried to stop an inquiry into a phone hacking and police bribery at the News of the World and defended his decision to hire one of the tabloid's editors as his communications chief. In a raucous emergency session on Wednesday in Parliament, Cameron admitted, however, that both the ruling Conservatives and the opposition Labour parties had failed to pursue...
04:24 PM, Jul 20, 2011
The foam attack on Rupert Murdoch was arguably the most dramatic moment of Tuesday's showdown in British Parliament. ...
04:07 PM, Jul 20, 2011
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron will be grilled by Parliament on Wednesday about a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the British establishment. Cameron cut short his visit to Africa on Tuesday to join parliamentarians in debating the phone-hacking issue and answer lawmakers' scrutiny over his links to Rupert Murdoch's media empire in a special session of House of Commons. The scandal has forced the resignations of senior executives at...
11:37 AM, Jul 20, 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
