Reporter at Murdoch's The Sun charged over bribery
A senior reporter at Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper is being charged with conspiring to pay 23,000 pounds (roughly $35,000) in bribes in return ...

British teenage whiz strikes deal with Yahoo
At 17, he's a tech whiz, he's rich — and he can even offer some advice on how to raise your kids. Teenage programmer Nick D'Aloisio's decision to sell ...
UK: Senior editor at The Sun charged over payoffs
The deputy editor at The Sun tabloid in Britain has been charged with authorizing thousands of pounds in illegal payoffs to government officials, ...
Ex-tabloid editor quizzed in phone hacking probe
The former editor of Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid was questioned on Friday by police investigating phone hacking, British media reported. The Press ...

Charlotte Church is back with new material, tour
In terms of chronological age, Charlotte Church — at just 27 — is probably too young for a comeback tour and album. But launching a second act can be ...

Duchess of York among new phone hack settlements
Sarah Ferguson, the former wife of Prince Andrew; British singer-songwriter James Blunt; and Israeli television psychic Uri Geller are among the ...

Asia stocks rise ahead of China's inflation data
Asian stock markets were mostly higher Friday before China releases last month's inflation and other economic data. "Chinese data for January should ...

Asian stocks flat, Japan backs off from high
Asian stock markets mostly held steady on Thursday but Japanese stocks slid as investors took profits following a huge rally the day before.

Liberty Global to buy Virgin Media for $16B
Liberty Global Inc., the cable TV operator controlled by media mogul John Malone, is buying U.K.-based Virgin Media Inc. in a $16 billion deal that ...

Paper: Armstrong lawsuit strengthened by admission
The British newspaper Sunday Times said its lawsuit against Lance Armstrong has been strengthened by the cyclist's doping confession. The Sunday Times ...
News Corp takes majority stake in German pay-TV
A wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has taken a majority stake in German pay-TV Sky Deutschland. The Munich-based channel said ...

UK detective found guilty in phone hacking scandal
A top British counterterrorism detective was found guilty Thursday of trying to sell information to one of Rupert Murdoch's tabloids, becoming the ...

UK paper suing Lance Armstrong over libel case
A British newspaper is suing Lance Armstrong for more than $1.5 million after it settled a libel case over doping allegations, saying that revelations ...
Hugh Grant settles hack claim with Murdoch paper
Actor Hugh Grant has settled his phone hacking claim against Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid for a "substantial" but ...

Strauss-Kahn, NYC hotel maid settle her lawsuit
When a settlement ended the last legal fallout from the sexual assault allegation that sank his political career, Dominique Strauss-Kahn kept his ...

Judge: Strauss-Kahn, NYC hotel maid settle suit
Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid settled her lawsuit Monday over sexual assault allegations that sank ...

Rupert Murdoch's mother Elisabeth dies at age 103
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, a prominent Australian philanthropist and mother of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has died at age 103. News Ltd., the Australian ...
News Corp Int'l news chief to step down
Tom Mockridge, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers who was parachuted in to steady an organization swamped in scandal, is ...
AP source: Strauss-Kahn, US hotel maid to settle
Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a hotel maid who accused him of trying to rape her have reached an agreement to ...
Long scandal highlights faults of British press
Here are key developments in the phone hacking scandal involving segments of Britain's unruly press: November 2005: The News of the World tabloid ...

UK's Cameron assessing review of country's press
Prime Minister David Cameron failed to offer any clues Wednesday on whether he will support new more stringent regulation of Britain's press following ...