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Bodyguard charged in phone-hacking probe

A security guard for former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks is to be charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice, England's state prosecutors say.

UK media reject watchdog plans

British newspapers have rejected government plans for a state-backed press watchdog and published their own proposal for self-regulation.
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3 charged in UK over royal stories

British prosecutors have charged The Sun tabloid's royal editor and two former staff at the military academy where Princes William and Harry trained, over the sale of stories for thousands of pounds.

Murdoch blasts 'racist' Australia on visas

Global media baron Rupert Murdoch has accused the government of his native Australia of "disgraceful and racist" language over a crackdown on visas for skilled migrants.

UK jails two officers for selling stories

A former policeman and a prison officer have been jailed for selling information to Britain's biggest-circulation newspaper The Sun.

UK reassures bloggers on new press rules

The UK government has insisted that bloggers and social media posts would not be caught by the new press regulations, but campaigners have warned the rules could be open to interpretation.

UK press to 'scrutinise' new regulations

Britain's newspapers have vowed to closely scrutinise a deal struck by the main political parties for a tough new press regulator, which they warned threatens 318 years of press freedom.
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4 UK journalists held in hacking probe

Four British journalists and former journalists have been arrested as part of an investigation into illegal phone-hacking, police say.

$2.6bn start for New News Corp

The newspaper and publishing unit being spun off by media giant News Corp will begin operations with $2.6bn in cash, according to regulatory documents.

Australia's Fairfax newspapers go tabloid

Australian broadsheet newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have ditched their century-old format for tabloid in a major overhaul at ailing media giant Fairfax.

UK police arrest 6 in new hacking probe

British police have arrested six former News of the World journalists in a new probe into alleged phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now-closed tabloid, Scotland Yard said.

Sun journalist charged with bribery

The defence editor of Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid The Sun and a former police officer have been charged in connection with the bribing of public officials for information.

UK detective on trial over phone hacking

A senior British counter-terrorism detective has committed a "gross breach" of public trust by trying to sell information to Rupert Murdoch's News of the World.

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch dies

The death of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, a woman almost as old as Australia itself, leaves the nation without its most generous philanthropist and the Murdoch family without its matriarch.
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Murdoch iPad daily fails

The failure of Rupert Murdoch's pioneering iPad newspaper The Daily underscores the problems of the news industry as it seeks a paid model for the digital age.
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