Tag: London newspaper

• Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 07:22 UTC

  A humble Murdoch blames in Parliament the “people I trusted” for the phone-hacking scandal

  

  Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and his son James testified Tuesday to a British parliamentary committee at which he defended his son and his company over a scandal that has rocked the British establishment.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:30 UTC

  Police reveal former PM Brown could have been victim of Murdoch’s tabloid

  

  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.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 07:23 UTC

  News of the World bought UK royal family details from police team, says BBC

  

  The News of the World newspaper bought contact details about the royal family from a policeman, the BBC reported today, deepening the scandal engulfing the News Corp media empire.

• Monday, July 11th 2011 - 08:05 UTC

  News of the World exits but the political consequences have just begun

  

  British government lawyers are drawing up a plan to block Rupert Murdoch's bid for the pay-TV operator BSkyB, the Independent newspaper reported on Monday.

• Sunday, July 10th 2011 - 09:00 UTC

  “The News of the World” last mobile phone hacking message: “Thank You & Goodbye”

  

  The final edition of the paper engulfed in a phone hacking scandal was published today as Rupert Murdoch headed to London to try to save the bigger prize of his takeover of the British broadcaster BSkyB.

• Thursday, July 7th 2011 - 18:11 UTC

  “The News of the World” last mobile phone hacking message: end of game

  

  This Sunday's edition of London’s The News of the World will be its last, News International chairman James Murdoch has said, after days of increasingly damaging allegations against the paper.