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
A protester rushed at Rupert Murdoch as the media baron gave testimony to British lawmakers. ...
09:48 PM, Jul 19, 2011
London: The phone-hacking controversy took a new turn on Monday with the death of a former 'News of the World' journalist, Sean Hoare, who first alleged that illegal practices were being adopted at the tabloid under the editorship of Andy Coulson. Coulson, who was arrested two weeks ago, resigned as editor of the tabloid due to the phone-hacking allegations, but was later hired by David Cameron as his communications director...
07:29 AM, Jul 19, 2011
London: Britain's tabloid phone-hacking scandal enveloped the London police force on Monday with the rapid-fire resignations of two top officers and claims of possible illegal eavesdropping, bribery and collusion. UK officials immediately vowed to investigate. Prime Minister David Cameron, feeling the political heat from his own close ties to individuals within Rupert Murdoch's media empire, cut short his trip to Africa and called an emergency session of Parliament for Wednesday...
12:55 AM, Jul 19, 2011
London: The London police Assistant Commissioner John Yates has resigned amid the firestorm surrounding the phone hacking scandal. Yates made a decision two years ago to not re-open police inquiries into phone hacking, saying he did not believe there was any new evidence to consider. He has said in recent weeks that he regrets that decision. He announced his decision on Monday. British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday called...
07:08 PM, Jul 18, 2011
London: British Prime Minister David Cameron is cutting short his ongoing visit to Africa and to join other ministers and parliamentarians in debating the phone-hacking issue in a special session of House of Commons on Wednesday. Cameron said during a press conference in Africa on Monday that he will make a statement in the House of Commons in the light of the hearings of two select committees on Tuesday. The...
04:20 PM, Jul 18, 2011
London: "We are sorry" the full-page ad began Saturday, as Rupert Murdoch tried to halt a phone-hacking scandal that has claimed two of his top executives with a gesture of atonement and promises to right the wrongs committed by his now-shuttered tabloid, News of the World. Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative-led government and the London police, meanwhile, faced increasing questions over their close relationship with Murdoch's media empire. Cameron was...
12:06 PM, Jul 17, 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
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12:09 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
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: Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief and an ex-royal reporter were arrested on Friday in a phone hacking and police corruption scandal that has already toppled a major tabloid and rattled the cozy relationship between British politicians and the powerful Murdoch media empire. The 168-year-old muckraking tabloid News of the World was shut down on Thursday after being engulfed by allegations its journalists paid police for information and...
07:25 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
London: Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday the government had to follow proper legal procedures when deciding on the takeover of BSkyB and the decision would take 'some time'. "Governments must follow the proper legal processes and procedures. That is exactly what (culture secretary) Jeremy Hunt is doing. His role is to take the advice of independent regulators. And, as his department made clear, given the events of...
03:13 PM, Jul 08, 2011
London: UK has told Pakistan to move decisively against al Qaeda following the death of the terror outfit's chief Osama bin Laden. "Now there is an opportunity to move decisively against al Qaeda following Osama bin Laden's death," British Prime Minister David Cameron told Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday during a meeting at 10, Downing Street in London. Bin Laden was killed in a US Navy SEALs raid...
07:24 AM, Jul 02, 2011
London: The NATO-led air campaign in Libya will have cost the UK at least 260 million pounds ($415 million) if it continues for another three months, Britain's Defense Secretary Liam Fox said on Thursday. Fox said the projected cost for Britain's involvement in a mission which started March 19 - and could continue until later this year - is "in the region" of 120 million pounds. In a statement to...
02:52 AM, Jun 24, 2011
Tripoli, Libya: Possible cracks emerged in NATO's Libya air campaign on Wednesday as Italy expressed concern about the accidental killing of civilians and called for a suspension in hostilities to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid. However, Britain insisted the alliance was "holding strong." Skepticism over the military campaign is growing as weeks of airstrikes have failed to unseat Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and outrage rises over allegations that airstrikes...
12:52 AM, Jun 23, 2011
