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LONDON — Media executive James Murdoch, under pressure over his role in Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal, is stepping down as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting, the Sky News channel reported Tuesday, Sky, the news channel of BSkyB, said his resignation would be confirmed later Tuesday after an unscheduled board meeting. It said James Murdoch would remain a board member and would be replaced as chairman by Nicholas Ferguson, the current deputy chairman. News Corp., the global media empire of James' father Rupert, w...
LONDON — A protester splattered Rupert Murdoch with white foam on Tuesday, interrupting a dramatic hearing in which the media baron told British lawmakers he was not responsible for a phone hacking scandal that has rocked his global empire. Murdoch appeared by turns vague, truculent, sharp and concise as he spoke alongside his son and deputy, James, calling the parliamentary inquisition "the most humble day of my career" but refusing to take personal blame for the crisis that has swept from a tabloid newspaper through the t... Full story
LONDON — Britain's tabloid phone-hacking scandal enveloped the London police force Monday with the rapid-fire resignations of two top officers amid claims of possible illegal eavesdropping, bribery and collusion. U.K 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 so he could address lawmakers on the s... Full story
LONDON — U.S.-based shipping firm UPS has been ordered to stop moving air cargo through some of its U.K. facilities because of security flaws, the British government said Friday. The order is the result of a planned security check rather than a new threat to aviation — and a sign of heightened concerns about the vulnerability of cargo in the wake of an al-Qaida plot that saw bombs disguised in toner cartridges shipped on freight flights from Yemen. AP Photo/Sang Tan A UPS sign is seen at the company's depot in north Lon...
LONDON — U.S.-based shipping firm UPS has been ordered to stop moving air cargo through some of its U.K. facilities because of security flaws, the British government said Friday. The order is the result of a planned security check rather than a new threat to aviation — and a sign of heightened concerns about the vulnerability of cargo in the wake of an al-Qaida plot that saw bombs disguised in toner cartridges shipped on freight flights from Yemen. Britain's Department for Transport said that "following careful con... Full story
LONDON — Paul McCartney is set to tie the knot at the venue where he first married more than 40 years ago. Officials said Friday that the former Beatle and fiancee Nancy Shevell have posted a notice of intention to marry at London's Marylebone Town Hall. Westminster Council, which oversees the venue, said the notice was posted Wednesday, meaning the couple could marry anytime after September 30. They have a year to hold the ceremony. AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file Recording artist Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell arrive at t... Full story
LONDON — Rupert Murdoch's scandal-rocked empire turned dramatically from defiance to contrition Friday as the media magnate accepted the resignation of his lieutenant Rebekah Brooks, said sorry to the public for his company's sins and made a humbling apology to the family of a murdered schoolgirl whose phone was hacked by the News of the World. The moves represent a shift in strategy aimed at calming a storm that has knocked billions off the value of Murdoch's News Corp., scuttled his ambitions to take control of British S...
AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File In this Dec. 3, 2008 file photo, Les Hinton, chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Co., is seen at the Dow Jones New York offices. Dow Jones confirms on Friday, that Hinton will resign his position effective immediately. LONDON — Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignation of The Wall Street Journal's publisher and the chief of his British operations on Friday as the once-defiant media mogul struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal with apologies to the public and the family of a m...
LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief and an ex-royal reporter were arrested 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 Thursday after being engulfed by allegations its journalists paid police for information and hacked into the phone messages of celebrities, young murder v...
JILL LAWLESS, RAPHAEL G. SATTER,Associated Press LONDON — WikiLeaks supporters struck back Wednesday at perceived enemies of the site and its jailed founder Julian Assange, launching hack attacks against MasterCard, Swedish prosecutors, a Swedish lawyer and a Swiss group that froze Assange's bank account. So-called hacktivists operating under the label "Operation Payback" claimed responsibility in a Twitter message for causing technological problems at MasterCard, which pulled the plug on its relationship with WikiLeaks on T...
An enormous ash cloud from a remot e Icelandic volcano caused the biggest flight disruption since the 2001 terrorist attacks as it drifted over northern Europe and stranded travelers on six continents. Officials said it could take days for the skies to become safe again in one of av i a t i o n ' s mo s t c o n ge s t e d areas. The cloud, floating miles above Earth and capable of knocking out jet engines, wrecked travel plans for tens o f t h o u s a n d s o f p e o p l e Thursday, from tourists and business travelers to pol...
A taxi driver described as quiet but friendly went on a shooting spree across a picturesque rural area of northwestern England today, killing at least five people and wounding 25 others before apparently turning the gun on himself, officials said. The rampage, in a region famed for its tranquil beauty, shocked a country where handguns are banned and multiple shoot ings rare — i t was Britain's deadliest mass shooting since 1996. Officers found a body believed to be that of 52-year-old suspect Derrick Bird in woods near the L... Full story
