NATO destroys Libyan state TV dishes

2011-07-30 17:39:41

NATO warplanes bombed early Saturday Libyan state TV satellite transmitters in the capital Tripoli, a Xinhua correspondent said.

Questions over far-right link in Norwegian attacks

2011-07-23 17:33:29

A report that Norway's bomb and gun rampage may be the work of a far-right militant confronts Europe with the possibility that a new paramilitary threat is emerging, a decade after al Qaeda's September 11 attacks.

Murdoch: Humbled over phone hacking

2011-07-19 23:06:28

Rupert Murdoch was humbled by a committee of lawmakers who grilled one of the world's most powerful media moguls and his son on their role in a phone-hacking scandal that has embroiled some of Britain's top politicians, police and journalists.
Death of whistleblower moaned

Murdoch car mobbed ahead of UK hearing

2011-07-19 19:09:23

Rupert Murdoch's car was mobbed by photographers Tuesday as he arrived for a grilling from U.K. lawmakers about the phone hacking scandal. Murdochs to be quizzed over scandal

Murdoch apologizes over hacking scandal

2011-07-16 15:24:05

Rupert Murdoch apologized to victims of criminal phone hacking by one of his tabloids and accepted the resignations of News Corp's top two newspaper executives, Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton.

Italy approves $98b austerity package

2011-07-16 14:33:44

The lower house of Italy's parliament on Friday approved a austerity budget worth over 70 billion euros (about $98 billion) aimed at securing public finances and reassuring global markets on the country's financial solidity.

US formally recognizes Libya rebels

2011-07-16 08:27:38

Rebel leaders won recognition as the legitimate government of Libya from the US and other world powers on Friday in a major boost to the rebels' faltering campaign to oust Muammar Gadhafi.

UK needs new media watchdog: PM

2011-07-16 07:49:15

The phone-hacking scandal of Rupert Murdoch's News International has shaken British journalism to its core and there are widespread calls for stepping up regulation of print media.

Murdoch flies to UK as paper dies, scandal lives

2011-07-11 14:01:55

Rupert Murdoch touched down in London on Sunday to take charge of his media empire's phone-hacking crisis as his best-selling Sunday tabloid, the News of the World, published its last. The scandal lives on despite his sacrifice of the 168-year-old paper at the heart of it.

Ceremony honors Jews killed by Polish neighbors

2011-07-10 22:49:37

Poland's president on Sunday apologized again for the murder of hundreds of Jews by their Polish neighbors 70 years ago _ a World War II massacre that caused painful soul-searching in the country when it was revealed in 2000.

Boat with 173 sinks in Russia's Volga

2011-07-10 21:13:21

One people were killed and some 94 others missing after a cruise ship carrying 173 sank in Volga river Sunday, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said.

Rupert Murdoch arrives at UK tabloid offices

2011-07-10 21:09:50

With the last edition of Britain's News of the World tabloid in hand, Rupert Murdoch arrived at the offices of his U.K. newspaper division Sunday to face the growing phone-hacking scandal that prompted the paper's closure.