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<description><![CDATA[A British computer hacker affiliated to the group Lulz Security pleaded guilty Tuesday to cyberattacks on institutions including Sony, Britain's National Health Service and Rupert Murdoch's News International.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/09/17671580-lulzsec-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-cyberattacks</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/09/17671580-lulzsec-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-cyberattacks</guid><category>technology</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>hackers</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>news-international</category><category>britain-national-health-service</category><category>lulz-security</category><pubDate>Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:36:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Times of London editor says he was pushed to quit</title>
<description><![CDATA[James Harding, editor of media mogul Rupert Murdoch's Times of London, announced he was resigning Wednesday, and said he was pressured to step down.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/12/15865875-times-of-london-editor-says-he-was-pushed-to-quit</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/12/15865875-times-of-london-editor-says-he-was-pushed-to-quit</guid><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>world-news</category><category>news-international</category><category>times-of-london</category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:42:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d37dd0cc-4959-457b-a21b-29c1c60a0849.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="297" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d37dd0cc-4959-457b-a21b-29c1c60a0849.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - A Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 photo from files showing the editor of the London Times newspaper, James Harding, as he arrives for a meeting of fellow newspaper editors and the British Prime Minister David Cameron following the release of the Leveson media inquiry, at Downing Street in London.  The editor of The Times newspaper is to stand down at the end of the month, it was announced Wednesday. James Harding, 43, one of the youngest journalists ever to take charge of the paper, informed the national independent directors of The Times this morning, News International and Times Newspapers Ltd said. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=be29bd07-f180-4add-b648-6636ac183025.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="507" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=be29bd07-f180-4add-b648-6636ac183025.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="152" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - A Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 photo from files showing the editor of the London Times newspaper, James Harding, as he leaves following a meeting of fellow newspaper editors and the British Prime Minister David Cameron following the release of the Leveson media inquiry, at Downing Street in London.  The editor of The Times newspaper is to stand down at the end of the month, it was announced Wednesday. James Harding, 43, one of the youngest journalists ever to take charge of the paper, informed the national independent directors of The Times this morning, News International and Times Newspapers Ltd said. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Judgment day: UK media faces moment of truth</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's judgment day for Britain's press.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raphael Satter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Raphael Satter]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/20/15302495-judgment-day-uk-media-faces-moment-of-truth</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/20/15302495-judgment-day-uk-media-faces-moment-of-truth</guid><category>technology</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>world-news</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>phone-hacking</category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:53:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cad9fbf0-f98c-4788-b2a8-d11814a6b6f9.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="299" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cad9fbf0-f98c-4788-b2a8-d11814a6b6f9.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012 file photo shows British Prime Minister David Cameron's former chief communications adviser and former editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson, after appearing in Westminster Magistrates Court on phone hacking charges, in London.  Officials have charged the British prime minister's former media aide and the ex-chief of Rupert Murdoch's News International with bribery offenses. Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said Tuesday Nov. 20, 2012 that Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks were among four people being charged with conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.  (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c93e8b24-f799-411c-b336-8f9fa5b6545c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="289" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c93e8b24-f799-411c-b336-8f9fa5b6545c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012 file photo shows Rebekah Brooks, the former chief of News Corp.'s British operations, leaving the Old Bailey court in London London.  Officials have charged the British prime minister's former media aide and the ex-chief of Rupert Murdoch's News International with bribery offenses. Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said Tuesday Nov. 20, 2012 that Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks were among four people being charged with conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.    (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>UK police arrest journalist in bribery probe</title>
<description><![CDATA[British police arrested a journalist Saturday on suspicion of bribery, acting on information supplied by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/11/13800796-uk-police-arrest-journalist-in-bribery-probe</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/11/13800796-uk-police-arrest-journalist-in-bribery-probe</guid><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>world-news</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>phone-hacking</category><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:01:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Rebekah Brooks formally charged over phone hacking</title>
<description><![CDATA[Former Rupert Murdoch protege Rebekah Brooks has been formally charged with conspiring to hack into the phones of hundreds of well-known people and their associates, a move first announced last month by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/29/13032027-rebekah-brooks-formally-charged-over-phone-hacking</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/29/13032027-rebekah-brooks-formally-charged-over-phone-hacking</guid><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>world-news</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>crown-prosecution-service</category><category>phone-hacking</category><category>rebekah-brooks</category><category>former-rupert-murdoch</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:42:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Murdoch resigns from boards of UK newspapers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned as a director of a number of News Corp. boards overseeing his Britain newspapers, a spokeswoman confirmed Saturday. He also quit from some of the media company's subsidiary boards in the United States.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sylvia Hui]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Sylvia Hui]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/21/12878688-murdoch-resigns-from-boards-of-uk-newspapers</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/21/12878688-murdoch-resigns-from-boards-of-uk-newspapers</guid><category>murdoch</category><category>united-states</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>world-news</category><category>news-international</category><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:37:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b901046e-28e4-4f50-9726-4051d3170c1c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="335" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b901046e-28e4-4f50-9726-4051d3170c1c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="183" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this July 22, 2011 file photo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch enters the News Corp. building, in New York. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned from a number of News Corp. subsidiary boards in Britain and the United States, a spokeswoman confirmed Saturday, July 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Phone hack charges may add to fallout for Brit PM</title>
<description><![CDATA[Britain's phone hacking scandal entered a new and expanded criminal phase Tuesday, with charges brought against two former members of Prime Minister David Cameron's inner circle over a campaign of illegal espionage that has rocked the country's establishment.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raphael Satter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Raphael Satter]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/18/12813631-phone-hack-charges-may-add-to-fallout-for-brit-pm</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/18/12813631-phone-hack-charges-may-add-to-fallout-for-brit-pm</guid><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>david-cameron</category><category>angelina-jolie</category><category>brad-pitt</category><category>world-news</category><category>scotland-yard</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>trinity-mirror</category><category>phone-hacking</category><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:55:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b901046e-28e4-4f50-9726-4051d3170c1c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="335" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b901046e-28e4-4f50-9726-4051d3170c1c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="183" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this July 22, 2011 file photo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch enters the News Corp. building, in New York. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has resigned from a number of News Corp. subsidiary boards in Britain and the United States, a spokeswoman confirmed Saturday, July 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=42e8991f-fd42-400c-a1eb-48643a3d42a2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=42e8991f-fd42-400c-a1eb-48643a3d42a2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This Wednesday, June 13, 2012 file photo shows Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International, leaving Westminster Magistrates' Courts after she was granted bail on charges of attempting to cover up tabloid phone-hacking, London. British authorities on Tuesday July 24, 2012 charged an ex-aide to the British prime minister, a former protege of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and six others in the ever-widening phone hacking scandal, accusing them of key roles in a lengthy campaign of illegal espionage that victimized hundreds including top celebrities Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The Crown Prosecution Service's Alison Levitt told journalists that Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, both former editors of Murdoch's now-shuttered News of the World tabloid, are among those being charged with conspiring to intercept the communications of more than 600 people between Oct. 3, 2000, and Aug. 9, 2006(AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5b3b4309-3f0f-4b9e-b433-e5b3fc4b5b80.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="282" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5b3b4309-3f0f-4b9e-b433-e5b3fc4b5b80.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This is a Thursday, May 10, 2012 file photo of  Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World newspaper and former director of communications for Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron as he arrives to appear at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in London. British authorities on Tuesday July 24, 2012 charged an ex-aide to the British prime minister, a former protege of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and six others in the ever-widening phone hacking scandal, accusing them of key roles in a lengthy campaign of illegal espionage that victimized hundreds including top celebrities Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The Crown Prosecution Service's Alison Levitt told journalists that Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, both former editors of Murdoch's now-shuttered News of the World tabloid, are among those being charged with conspiring to intercept the communications of more than 600 people between Oct. 3, 2000, and Aug. 9, 2006.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Murdoch's News International sells Wapping site</title>
<description><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch's News International has sold its Wapping location in East London for 150 million pounds ($230 million), leaving behind a site that was a 1980s labor flashpoint and a symbol of the media baron's determination to shake up Britain's newspaper industry.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/31/11991160-murdochs-news-international-sells-wapping-site</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/31/11991160-murdochs-news-international-sells-wapping-site</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>news-international</category><category>east-london</category><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 15:54:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ex-tabloid boss Brooks faces phone hacking charges</title>
<description><![CDATA[One of Rupert Murdoch's most trusted lieutenants and five people close to her were charged Tuesday with conspiring to hide evidence of phone hacking, bringing the scandal that has raged across Britain's media and political elite uncomfortably close to Prime Minister David Cameron.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Stringer]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[David Stringer]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/10/11638028-ex-tabloid-boss-brooks-faces-phone-hacking-charges</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/10/11638028-ex-tabloid-boss-brooks-faces-phone-hacking-charges</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>david-cameron</category><category>world-news</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>phone-hacking</category><category>rebekah-brooks</category><category>former-news</category><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:36:53 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cffffcf1-45ac-4a67-a896-837cdd80b848.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cffffcf1-45ac-4a67-a896-837cdd80b848.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Andy Coulson, former Editor of News of the World and former 10 Downing Street Director of Communication leaves his home in south London, Thursday, May 10, 2012. Coulson is due to appear Thursday at the High Court in London to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. The Leveson Inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which was shut in July 2011 after it became clear that the tabloid had systematically broken the law. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a012291f-b5f9-4a15-be9e-b019409bd724.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a012291f-b5f9-4a15-be9e-b019409bd724.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Andy Coulson, former Editor of News of the World and former 10 Downing Street Director of Communication leaves his home in south London, Thursday, May 10, 2012. Coulson is scheduled today at the High Court in London to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. The Leveson Inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which was shut in July 2011, after it became clear that the tabloid had systematically broken the law. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fc7e7fff-a56b-4b58-ae74-7d4e8c788854.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="227" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fc7e7fff-a56b-4b58-ae74-7d4e8c788854.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="68" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World newspaper and former director of communications for Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, arrives to appear at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in London, Thursday, May 10, 2012.  Britain's phone hacking scandal came knocking on the door of Downing Street on Thursday, as Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief faced a grilling by a media ethics inquiry about his time as editor of a tabloid newspaper that practiced large-scale illegal eavesdropping.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=56c5e3cc-6e0e-4069-98b1-6d7c3da9f8c8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="383" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=56c5e3cc-6e0e-4069-98b1-6d7c3da9f8c8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="160" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World newspaper and former director of communications for Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, arrives to appear at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in London, Thursday, May 10, 2012.  Britain's phone hacking scandal came knocking on the door of Downing Street on Thursday, as Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief faced a grilling by a media ethics inquiry about his time as editor of a tabloid newspaper that practiced large-scale illegal eavesdropping.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=92055790-5841-4407-a79a-26953fc435c7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="307" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=92055790-5841-4407-a79a-26953fc435c7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="92" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World newspaper and former director of communications for Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron arrives to appear at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in London, Thursday, May 10, 2012.  Britain's phone hacking scandal came knocking on the door of Downing Street on Thursday, as Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief faced a grilling by a media ethics inquiry about his time as editor of a tabloid newspaper that practiced large-scale illegal eavesdropping. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=72da12dd-eb10-42e0-af35-57f2d5c415ad.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=72da12dd-eb10-42e0-af35-57f2d5c415ad.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International, arrives at the High Court in London to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Friday, May 11, 2012. The Leveson Inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which was shut in July 2011 after it became clear that the tabloid had systematically broken the law. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8defbf53-1194-417f-8b88-5c123eb56dce.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8defbf53-1194-417f-8b88-5c123eb56dce.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International, arrives at the High Court in London to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Friday, May 11, 2012. The Leveson Inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which was shut in July 2011 after it became clear that the tabloid had systematically broken the law. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b6c3d3e6-f023-41d1-91ea-a964e76dc276.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="281" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b6c3d3e6-f023-41d1-91ea-a964e76dc276.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks, the husband of Rebekah Brooks the former Chief Executive Officer of News International, sits next to her, obscured at right, as she arrives in a vehicle to appear at the Leveson media ethics inquiry, at the High Court in London, Friday, May 11, 2012.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dc41ed7f-3388-4c1f-a57d-9e1389c24f31.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="291" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dc41ed7f-3388-4c1f-a57d-9e1389c24f31.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="88" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks gives evidence to Britain's media ethics inquiry in central London Friday May 11 2012 in this image from television. Brooks is a central figure in the scandal over tabloid phone hacking that has shaken both Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and Britain's establishment.   She resigned in July as chief executive of News International, Murdoch's British newspaper operation, and has twice been arrested and questioned by police about illegal eavesdropping and obstruction of justice. (AP Photo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1e151bdc-1998-40b3-ad93-e94391380204.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="262" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1e151bdc-1998-40b3-ad93-e94391380204.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks gives evidence to Britain's media ethics inquiry in central London Friday May 11 2012 in this image from television. Brooks is a central figure in the scandal over tabloid phone hacking that has shaken both Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and Britain's establishment.   She resigned in July as chief executive of News International, Murdoch's British newspaper operation, and has twice been arrested and questioned by police about illegal eavesdropping and obstruction of justice. (AP Photo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bcf81a61-fe73-4ffa-88a7-1c71b50fef6c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=bcf81a61-fe73-4ffa-88a7-1c71b50fef6c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A woman dressed up in a wig to look like Rebecca Brooks, center, the former Chief Executive Officer of News International pretends to be her arriving with two men at the Leveson media ethics inquiry, at the High Court in London, Friday, May 11, 2012.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1397129d-1a54-4f56-a0fb-5a2f444c2730.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="276" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1397129d-1a54-4f56-a0fb-5a2f444c2730.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A woman dressed up in a wig to look like Rebecca Brooks, center, the former Chief Executive Officer of News International, pretends to be her arriving with two men at the Leveson media ethics inquiry, at the High Court in London, Friday, May 11, 2012.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=19558278-c590-487e-a2a6-82fadca5bbaf.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="307" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=19558278-c590-487e-a2a6-82fadca5bbaf.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="200" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International and her husband Charlie Brooks leave the High Court in London after giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Friday, May 11, 2012. The Leveson Inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which was shut in July 2011 after it became clear that the tabloid had systematically broken the law. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=915eaec8-ac52-4107-b53f-85cbbd9574da.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="279" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=915eaec8-ac52-4107-b53f-85cbbd9574da.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International leaves the High Court in London after giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Friday, May 11, 2012. The Leveson Inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which was shut in July 2011 after it became clear that the tabloid had systematically broken the law. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=14422bb6-0e02-41b1-9d68-d6dd2e7d18c7.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="353" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=14422bb6-0e02-41b1-9d68-d6dd2e7d18c7.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="174" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International leaves the High Court in London after giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Friday, May 11, 2012. The Leveson Inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which was shut in July 2011 after it became clear that the tabloid had systematically broken the law. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a18e4530-4422-418a-9876-a73eaeef1897.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="306" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a18e4530-4422-418a-9876-a73eaeef1897.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="92" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International and her husband Charlie Brooks leave the High Court in London after giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Friday, May 11, 2012. The Leveson Inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which was shut in July 2011 after it became clear that the tabloid had systematically broken the law. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dff83f28-27f8-4e05-9464-62bf0df2a400.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="279" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=dff83f28-27f8-4e05-9464-62bf0df2a400.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This Friday, May 11, 2012 file photo shows Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International leaves the High Court in London after giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. Brooks said Tuesday May 15, 2012 she and her husband will face charges over Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal. Brooks, 43, said Tuesday in a statement that she will be prosecuted over allegations of obstruction of justice.(AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3605aade-01b3-4afc-b0a6-3b2d80a3d97e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="283" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3605aade-01b3-4afc-b0a6-3b2d80a3d97e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This Friday, May 11, 2012 file photo shows Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International leaves the High Court in London after giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. Brooks said Tuesday May 15, 2012 she and her husband will face charges over Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal. Brooks, 43, said Tuesday in a statement that she will be prosecuted over allegations of obstruction of justice.(AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2e1c8a23-9503-45a4-8350-2d2bab94034e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="306" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2e1c8a23-9503-45a4-8350-2d2bab94034e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="92" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This Friday, May 11, 2012 file photo shows Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International and her husband Charlie Brooks leaving the High Court in London after giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. Brooks said Tuesday May 15, 2012 she and her husband will face charges over Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal. Brooks, 43, said Tuesday in a statement that she will be prosecuted over allegations of obstruction of justice. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=80d56116-bc61-4ae4-8074-8bd52276735c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="354" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=80d56116-bc61-4ae4-8074-8bd52276735c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="174" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE This Friday, May 11, 2012 file photo shows Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International and her husband Charlie Brooks leaving the High Court in London after giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. Brooks said Tuesday May 15, 2012 she and her husband will face charges over Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal. Brooks, 43, said Tuesday in a statement that she will be prosecuted over allegations of obstruction of justice. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cb49dc5c-58a4-46f9-888e-bc4613bddb27.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="356" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cb49dc5c-58a4-46f9-888e-bc4613bddb27.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="173" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former News of the World Editor Rebekah Brooks arrives at Lewisham police station, London where she charged over alleged attempts to conceal evidence of Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal Tuesday May 15, 2012. The 43-year-old Brooks, who quit as News International chief executive in July, faces three separate allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice &amp;#8212; an offense which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.   (AP Photo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a03e0945-3af3-4b0a-915b-86d051e51646.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="356" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a03e0945-3af3-4b0a-915b-86d051e51646.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="173" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former News of the World Editor Rebekah Brooks arrives at Lewisham police station, London where she charged over alleged attempts to conceal evidence of Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal Tuesday May 15, 2012. The 43-year-old Brooks, who quit as News International chief executive in July, faces three separate allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice &amp;#8212; an offense which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.   (AP Photo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7507bc48-e611-4d76-b303-bda5c117acf5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="313" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7507bc48-e611-4d76-b303-bda5c117acf5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="94" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks, husband of Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor, walks from Hammersmith Police station, London after he was charged with two counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice Tuesday, May,15, 2012. The charges relate to the ongoing police investigation into allegations of phone hacking and corruption of public officials in relation to the News of the World and The Sun newspapers.   (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=28500a4b-be1d-4abe-b083-eb92839d5f30.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="275" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=28500a4b-be1d-4abe-b083-eb92839d5f30.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former News of the World Editor Rebekah Brooks, left, arrives at Lewisham police station, London where she charged over alleged attempts to conceal evidence of Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal Tuesday May 15, 2012. The 43-year-old Brooks, who quit as News International chief executive in July, faces three separate allegations of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice &amp;#8212; an offense which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.   (AP Photo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>PM's former aide takes stand at UK ethics inquiry</title>
<description><![CDATA[Britain's phone hacking scandal came knocking on the door of Downing Street on Thursday, as Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief faced a grilling by a media ethics inquiry about his time as editor of a tabloid newspaper that practiced large-scale illegal eavesdropping.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jill Lawless]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jill Lawless]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/03/11520361-pms-former-aide-takes-stand-at-uk-ethics-inquiry</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/05/03/11520361-pms-former-aide-takes-stand-at-uk-ethics-inquiry</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>david-cameron</category><category>world-news</category><category>two-british</category><category>hacking</category><category>downing-street</category><category>news-international</category><category>phone-hacking</category><category>rebekah-brooks</category><category>former-news</category><category>local-british</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 May 2012 14:15:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9f702132-1a5e-411b-bad1-0ee359fcf662.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="311" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=9f702132-1a5e-411b-bad1-0ee359fcf662.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="94" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire leaves Britain's Supreme Court in central London, Tuesday, May 8, 2012. Mulcaire, jailed for hacking phones for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to back his bid to keep mum about who ordered him to conduct the illegal eavesdropping. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5ba02328-2811-4400-a77a-3931ab1afab4.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="347" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5ba02328-2811-4400-a77a-3931ab1afab4.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="177" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, left, and his wife Alison, right, leave Britain's Supreme Court in central London, Tuesday, May 8, 2012. Mulcaire, jailed for hacking phones for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to back his bid to keep mum about who ordered him to conduct the illegal eavesdropping. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f0a67f97-930f-4a63-92ae-986654a5f147.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="492" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f0a67f97-930f-4a63-92ae-986654a5f147.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="148" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, left, and his wife Alison, right, leave Britain's Supreme Court in central London, Tuesday, May 8, 2012. Mulcaire, jailed for hacking phones for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to back his bid to keep mum about who ordered him to conduct the illegal eavesdropping. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c90c71d7-64b5-4778-b2fe-916e14b45fe2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="391" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c90c71d7-64b5-4778-b2fe-916e14b45fe2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="157" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire leaves Britain's Supreme Court in central London, Tuesday, May 8, 2012. Mulcaire, jailed for hacking phones for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to back his bid to keep mum about who ordered him to conduct the illegal eavesdropping. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5aa3c8a7-48fe-4fe5-8d5b-5311fe1d0f9e.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="315" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5aa3c8a7-48fe-4fe5-8d5b-5311fe1d0f9e.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="95" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband process to the House of Lords, London, to listen to the Queen's Speech at the State Opening of Parliament Wednesday May 9, 2012. Queen Elizabeth II said Wednesday that Britain's government plans to finally reform the centuries-old House of Lords and introduce direct elections for members.   (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cffffcf1-45ac-4a67-a896-837cdd80b848.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cffffcf1-45ac-4a67-a896-837cdd80b848.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Andy Coulson, former Editor of News of the World and former 10 Downing Street Director of Communication leaves his home in south London, Thursday, May 10, 2012. Coulson is due to appear Thursday at the High Court in London to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. The Leveson Inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which was shut in July 2011 after it became clear that the tabloid had systematically broken the law. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a012291f-b5f9-4a15-be9e-b019409bd724.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a012291f-b5f9-4a15-be9e-b019409bd724.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Andy Coulson, former Editor of News of the World and former 10 Downing Street Director of Communication leaves his home in south London, Thursday, May 10, 2012. Coulson is scheduled today at the High Court in London to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. The Leveson Inquiry is Britain's media ethics probe that was set up in the wake of the scandal over phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, which was shut in July 2011, after it became clear that the tabloid had systematically broken the law. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Murdoch, politicians under pressure after report</title>
<description><![CDATA[Not fit to run a major company. It is a damning judgment on Rupert Murdoch, a threat to his British assets &#8212; and a headache for Britain's government.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jill Lawless]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jill Lawless]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/25/11408761-murdoch-politicians-under-pressure-after-report</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/25/11408761-murdoch-politicians-under-pressure-after-report</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>phone</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>news-corp</category><category>david-cameron</category><category>world-news</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>british-sky-broadcasting</category><category>james-murdoch</category><category>phone-hacking</category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:40:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=876d3ee5-cbd9-48a3-be11-14868d546ae3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="467" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=876d3ee5-cbd9-48a3-be11-14868d546ae3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="140" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this image from video, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch appears at Lord Justice Brian Leveson's inquiry in London, Wednesday April 25, 2012 to answer questions under oath about how much he knew about phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid. Murdoch is being grilled on his relationship with British politicians at the country's media ethics inquiry, while a government minister is battling accusations he gave News Corp. privileged access in its bid to take over a major broadcaster. (AP Photo/Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fd8d8e38-c86d-4c61-88e5-c91c134c7e0b.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="272" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=fd8d8e38-c86d-4c61-88e5-c91c134c7e0b.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;James Murdoch, right, sits in the back of a vehicle with an unidentified woman as he is driven away after appearing at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in London, Tuesday, April 24, 2012.  James Murdoch's behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign spilled out into the public domain Tuesday as documents detailing his close ties to the British establishment were examined by a judge-led inquiry into media ethics.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c6d37bb4-8149-4a43-87e6-fe6abbde7502.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="270" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c6d37bb4-8149-4a43-87e6-fe6abbde7502.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Monday Oct. 3, 2011 file photo Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of Sate for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, speaks at Britain's Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, England. (AP Photo/Jon Super, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0acc0a65-60e4-4fb8-8ad0-0e53ba543ac2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0acc0a65-60e4-4fb8-8ad0-0e53ba543ac2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, right, his wife Wendi Deng, center, and son Lachlan Murdoch sit in the back of a car as they are driven to the Leveson inquiry at the High Court in London, Thursday, April 26, 2012.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=deb47b62-e01a-4aa5-884e-0ee4c680ca97.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=deb47b62-e01a-4aa5-884e-0ee4c680ca97.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi Deng arrive at the High Court in London to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking, Thursday, April 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4da3d6c5-9f99-43c0-a9d0-78dce3e3ff43.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=4da3d6c5-9f99-43c0-a9d0-78dce3e3ff43.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, right, and his wife Wendi Deng sit in the back of a car as they are driven to the Leveson inquiry at the High Court in London, Thursday, April 26, 2012.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cb5bc011-2576-44ef-b521-1bc3c22c2af5.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="363" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cb5bc011-2576-44ef-b521-1bc3c22c2af5.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="169" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A protester dressed up as News Corp. Rupert Murdoch, center, manipulates a string puppet depicting British Prime Minister David Cameron during a demonstration outside the Leveson inquiry at the High Court in London Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Murdoch defended his globe-spanning, half-a-century-long media career Wednesday, telling the inquiry into U.K. media ethics that he never called in favors from the powerful people his papers covered. (AP Photo/Helen Allman)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=72d9065b-233d-481e-b461-7c1d95c3d9e8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=72d9065b-233d-481e-b461-7c1d95c3d9e8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A campaigner wearing a giant head mask of Rupert Murdoch holds up string puppets depicting British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt in a demonstration calling for Jeremy Hunt to resign, outside the High Court in London where News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch was given evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch defended his globe-spanning, half-a-century long media career Wednesday, telling an inquiry into U.K. media ethics that he never called in favors from the powerful people his papers covered. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=914399d1-c41d-4c89-ae95-3ce41fe9161c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="377" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=914399d1-c41d-4c89-ae95-3ce41fe9161c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="163" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron walks from number 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament in London, Wednesday, April 25, 2012.  Britain's economy has fallen back into recession for the first time since 2009 after official figures Wednesday showed that it unexpectedly contracted during the first three months of the year. Treasury chief George Osborne said the eurozone crisis has impeded Britain's recovery, but he said he would stick to his &quot;credible plan&quot; to cut budget deficits.  (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=160b27a4-a290-4e17-a7bb-8efe0d0c5323.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="269" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=160b27a4-a290-4e17-a7bb-8efe0d0c5323.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday, April 25, 2012 file photo Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron walks from number 10 Downing Street to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament in London. David Cameron says he discussed News Corp.'s bid to take full control of a British broadcaster with James Murdoch, but denies promising to support the deal in return for favorable coverage from the media giant's newspapers. Cameron told BBC television Sunday April 29, 2012 that he had chatted about the takeover bid with James Murdoch at a Christmas party, but insisted he had not brokered any tit-for-tat deal with him or his media mogul father Rupert Murdoch. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c9a1f45a-1b53-46b2-a6ff-57dc1a0289c0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="370" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c9a1f45a-1b53-46b2-a6ff-57dc1a0289c0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="166" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A protester dressed as Rupert Murdoch, right, holds a puppet of Britain's Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Thursday, April 26, 2012. Chairman of News Corp. Rupert Murdoch appeared Thursday at the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6eb41df4-fe96-4b74-87bc-5f5556d81900.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="276" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6eb41df4-fe96-4b74-87bc-5f5556d81900.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, left, his wife Wendi Deng and son Lachlan Murdoch leave the High Court in London after giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry, Thursday, April 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1bb46f8d-a14f-4ceb-9ec5-18c5d525d4dc.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="254" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1bb46f8d-a14f-4ceb-9ec5-18c5d525d4dc.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this image from video, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch appears at Lord Justice Brian Leveson's inquiry in London, Wednesday April 25, 2012 to answer questions under oath about how much he knew about phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid. Murdoch is being grilled on his relationship with British politicians at the country's media ethics inquiry, while a government minister is battling accusations he gave News Corp. privileged access in its bid to take over a major broadcaster. (AP Photo/Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1d4b34db-2b84-4295-8fe1-6fa80ba7af3a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1d4b34db-2b84-4295-8fe1-6fa80ba7af3a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A campaigner wearing a giant head mask of Rupert Murdoch holds up string puppets depicting British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt in a demonstration calling for Jeremy Hunt to resign, outside the High Court in London where News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch was given evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch defended his globe-spanning, half-a-century long media career Wednesday, telling an inquiry into U.K. media ethics that he never called in favors from the powerful people his papers covered. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b8e3d3ee-bb8e-4bcb-acfb-704356a725a2.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="297" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b8e3d3ee-bb8e-4bcb-acfb-704356a725a2.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This Sunday July 10, 2011 file photo shows Chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch, right, and his son James Murdoch, chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia arrive at his residence in central London. An influential group of British lawmakers say Rupert Murdoch is unfit to lead his global media empire, in a scathing report that says his company misled Parliament about the scale of phone hacking at one of its tabloids. Parliament's cross-party Culture, Media and Sport committee said Tuesday May 1, 2012, that News International, the British newspaper division of Murdoch's News Corp., had deliberately ignored evidence of malpractice, covered up evidence and frustrated efforts to expose wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Blogger exposes links between UK journos, shady PI</title>
<description><![CDATA[The names of three dozen British journalists allegedly involved with a shady private investigator were leaked Tuesday to the Internet, posing another potential embarrassment for the U.K.'s scandal-tarred media.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raphael Satter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Raphael Satter]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/05/11032080-blogger-exposes-links-between-uk-journos-shady-pi</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/05/11032080-blogger-exposes-links-between-uk-journos-shady-pi</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>phone</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>world-news</category><category>sienna-miller</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>sky-news</category><category>phone-hacking</category><pubDate>Thu, 5 Apr 2012 09:50:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/5b224c4b-cfa6-4499-bb90-e19c0e877e01.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="317" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/5b224c4b-cfa6-4499-bb90-e19c0e877e01.jpg" width="120" height="194" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A man walks to the entrance of one of the BSkyB headquarter buildings complex, in west London, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. 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 he resignation would be confirmed later Tuesday after an unscheduled board meeting. It said Murdoch would remain a board member and would be replaced as chairman by Nicholas Ferguson, the current deputy chairman. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a0ec789d-e13a-4a8c-bbdd-ed8e95111fed.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a0ec789d-e13a-4a8c-bbdd-ed8e95111fed.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The entrance of one of the BSkyB headquarter buildings complex in west London, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. 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 he resignation would be confirmed later Tuesday after an unscheduled board meeting. It said Murdoch would remain a board member and would be replaced as chairman by Nicholas Ferguson, the current deputy chairman. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/0c3d965d-104a-4d18-b373-8a0c686d33f4.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/0c3d965d-104a-4d18-b373-8a0c686d33f4.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2011 file photo, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch delivers a keynote address at the National Summit on Education Reform in San Francisco. Sky News said in a statement Thursday, April 5, 2012 that the channel twice authorized its reporters to hack into computers, a potentially embarrassing revelation that could further dent the media tycoon's hope of acquiring full control over satellite broadcaster BSkyB. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title></title>
<description><![CDATA[French interior minister says shooting suspect refusing to surrender, two officers injured]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/14/10678660-</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/14/10678660-</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>eu</category><category>apnewsalert</category><category>politics</category><category>world-news</category><category>us-news</category><category>news-international</category><category>tnt-express</category><category>john-demjanjuk</category><category>james-murdoch</category><category>russian-fm</category><category>joachim-gauck</category><category>lambeth-palace</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:56:47 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>UK police thought phone hacking widespread in 2006</title>
<description><![CDATA[Detectives pursuing British tabloid phone hacking in 2006 quickly concluded that the practice was not confined to a rogue News of the World reporter and identified hundreds of potential victims &#8212; including one of owner Rupert Murdoch's trusted lieutenants, Rebekah Brooks.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jill Lawless]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jill Lawless]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/22/10478542-uk-police-thought-phone-hacking-widespread-in-2006</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/22/10478542-uk-police-thought-phone-hacking-widespread-in-2006</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>phone</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>tony-blair</category><category>world-news</category><category>high-court</category><category>scotland-yard</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>charlotte-church</category><category>phone-hacking</category><category>rebekah-brooks</category><category>singer-charlotte-church</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:05:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/00ee5278-425b-439b-b1f8-af4ce57748fe.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="283" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/00ee5278-425b-439b-b1f8-af4ce57748fe.jpg" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A protester wearing a mask depicting Rupert Murdoch, stages a rally against him, outside the headquarters of News International in London, Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch gave staff at his scandal-hit tabloid The Sun new assurances over their future Friday in London crisis talks. Staff said Murdoch had discussed plans to open a new Sunday tabloid and confirmed that workers currently suspended amid police inquiries into alleged wrongdoing would be allowed to return to their posts.  (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/7089d01e-cc17-4988-b5a4-98f09073c703.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="282" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/7089d01e-cc17-4988-b5a4-98f09073c703.jpg" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo made available by News International News International  of Rupert Murdoch (right) talking to staff  during a tour of The Sun newsroom, London Friday Feb. 17, 2012.  Murdoch moved to quell growing disquiet at Britain's top-selling newspaper Friday as he lifted the suspensions of all arrested staff. While pledging &quot;unwavering support&quot; for his journalists, he also vowed to root out wrongdoing at News International. The tabloid has been rocked by the arrests of 10 current and former senior reporters and executives since November over alleged corrupt payments to public officials. (AP Photo/ Arthur Edwards/News International)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/5c6f6c92-fa46-4784-96e6-450d0cf4f95c.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="340" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/5c6f6c92-fa46-4784-96e6-450d0cf4f95c.jpg" width="120" height="181" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - British singer Charlotte Church arrives at an awards ceremony in central London, in this Monday Oct. 25, 2010 file photo.  Singer Charlotte Church, a former teen sensation who has been the subject of intense tabloid intrusion, has settled her phone-hacking lawsuit against the publisher of the News of the World tabloid, lawyers told Britain's High Court on Thursday Feb. 23, 2012.  (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/928f543a-ee52-4e30-981d-8365a503cb95.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="275" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/928f543a-ee52-4e30-981d-8365a503cb95.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Singer Charlotte Church, center, arrives with her legal team at the High Court in London to hear the reading of a statement setting out the terms of the settlement for phone hacking damages claim against News International, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. Charlotte Church, who testified before a media inquiry of being hounded by Rupert Murdoch's journalists when she was a teen singing sensation, received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) on Monday in a phone hacking settlement from News International and said she had been sickened by what she had learnt about intrusion into her private life. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/014a9d2e-5302-4130-b99a-613b6510aefd.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/014a9d2e-5302-4130-b99a-613b6510aefd.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Singer Charlotte Church speaks to the media outside the High Court in London after hearing the reading of a statement setting out the terms of the settlement for phone hacking damages claim against News International, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. Church, who testified before a media inquiry of being hounded by Rupert Murdoch's journalists when she was a teen singing sensation, received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) Monday in a phone hacking settlement from News International and said she had been sickened by what she had learnt about intrusion into her private life. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/4f11460d-0ff3-47c6-9951-ac2d3dcee8d5.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="288" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/4f11460d-0ff3-47c6-9951-ac2d3dcee8d5.jpg" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Singer Charlotte Church speaks to the media outside the High Court in London after hearing the reading of a statement setting out the terms of the settlement for phone hacking damages claim against News International, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. Church, who testified before a media inquiry of being hounded by Rupert Murdoch's journalists when she was a teen singing sensation, received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) Monday in a phone hacking settlement from News International and said she had been sickened by what she had learnt about intrusion into her private life. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/65ed8cdf-165d-4a60-b844-e6468a723c70.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/65ed8cdf-165d-4a60-b844-e6468a723c70.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Singer Charlotte Church speaks to the media outside the High Court in London after hearing the reading of a statement setting out the terms of the settlement for phone hacking damages claim against News International, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. Church, who testified before a media inquiry of being hounded by Rupert Murdoch's journalists when she was a teen singing sensation, received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) Monday in a phone hacking settlement from News International and said she had been sickened by what she had learnt about intrusion into her private life. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a96344e5-c6af-4037-9fc1-5a5976be9faa.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a96344e5-c6af-4037-9fc1-5a5976be9faa.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Singer Charlotte Church, right, speaks to the media outside the High Court in London after hearing the reading of a statement setting out the terms of the settlement for phone hacking damages claim against News International, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. Church, who testified before a media inquiry of being hounded by Rupert Murdoch's journalists when she was a teen singing sensation, received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) Monday in a phone hacking settlement from News International and said she had been sickened by what she had learnt about intrusion into her private life. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/389d1831-1dd5-493e-9dfd-53379e06ce6c.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="333" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/389d1831-1dd5-493e-9dfd-53379e06ce6c.jpg" width="120" height="185" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Singer Charlotte Church leaves the High Court in London after hearing the reading of a statement setting out the terms of the settlement for phone hacking damages claim against News International, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. Church, who testified before a media inquiry of being hounded by Rupert Murdoch's journalists when she was a teen singing sensation, received 600,000 pounds ($951,000) Monday in a phone hacking settlement from News International and said she had been sickened by what she had learnt about intrusion into her private life. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b2e011e1-a1e0-4759-a911-25e39ec313a9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="502" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b2e011e1-a1e0-4759-a911-25e39ec313a9.jpg" width="120" height="151" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Sunday, July 10, 2011 file photo, former Chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks leaves a hotel in central London.   British police gave former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks a retired police steed to look after, the force confirmed Tuesday Feb. 28, 2012  but they insisted it was not a gift horse.  The Metropolitan Police said the horse was loaned to Brooks &amp;#8212; former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers &amp;#8212; in 2008 under a program that allows people to care for retired service animals. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/0b700ccd-5020-476a-a2f4-5d26587cb6a0.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/0b700ccd-5020-476a-a2f4-5d26587cb6a0.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this July 19, 2011 file photo, chief executive of News Corporation for Europe and Asia, James Murdoch, arrives at the News International headquarters in London.  Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. says James Murdoch is stepping down as executive chairman of the company's U.K. newspaper arm.  News Corp. said Wednesday Feb. 29, 2012 James Murdoch has relinquished his position at News International to focus on the company's international TV business. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Top editor at Sun tabloid attacks UK hacking probe</title>
<description><![CDATA[Is Rupert Murdoch's best-selling newspaper in open revolt?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raphael Satter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Raphael Satter]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/06/10331901-top-editor-at-sun-tabloid-attacks-uk-hacking-probe</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/06/10331901-top-editor-at-sun-tabloid-attacks-uk-hacking-probe</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>phone</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>jk-rowling</category><category>british-cabinet</category><category>world-news</category><category>high-court</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>hugh-grant</category><category>beatle-paul-mccartney</category><category>heather-mills</category><category>piers-morgan</category><category>phone-hacking</category><category>is-rupert-murdoch</category><pubDate>Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:57:22 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/7dfe6289-b7a1-415f-b832-8ee1e4d0fe8b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="390" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/7dfe6289-b7a1-415f-b832-8ee1e4d0fe8b.jpg" width="120" height="158" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;This photo of May 22, 2011 shows comedian Steve Coogan who received a settlement of 40,000 pounds ($63,500) from Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper company over phone hacking.  Nine more phone hacking lawsuits against Rupert Murdoch's News International have been settled, including a case brought by comedian Steve Coogan, the victims' lawyer told Britain's High Court on Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012.  That brings to more than 60 the number of claims that Murdoch's UK newspaper company has dealt with in the scandal that has already brought down a 168-year-old tabloid and threatened Murdoch's global media empire.     (AP Photo/Ian West/PA Wire, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/1749e83d-97f3-4a16-8cca-bbb6d0458372.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="337" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/1749e83d-97f3-4a16-8cca-bbb6d0458372.jpg" width="120" height="182" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Michelle Stanistreet, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, (NUJ), center, arrives to testify at the final day of the first phase of the Leveson Inquiry, in central London, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012.Rupert Murdoch's News International has settled nearly all the cases against the company in the first wave of lawsuits for phone hacking by its journalists, with a new round of apologies and payouts announced Wednesday in a London court. But a potentially damaging claim lodged by British singer Charlotte Church is still headed to trial later this month and a wave of new lawsuits &amp;#8212; as many as 56 in all &amp;#8212; is looming, lawyers told London's High Court. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/ce62ccec-d03b-494a-99a3-52759a5cbff2.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="340" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/ce62ccec-d03b-494a-99a3-52759a5cbff2.jpg" width="120" height="181" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Michelle Stanistreet, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, (NUJ) , arrives to testify at the final day of the first phase of the Leveson Inquiry, in central London, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Rupert Murdoch's News International has settled nearly all the cases against the company in the first wave of lawsuits for phone hacking by its journalists, with a new round of apologies and payouts announced Wednesday in a London court. But a potentially damaging claim lodged by British singer Charlotte Church is still headed to trial later this month and a wave of new lawsuits &amp;#8212; as many as 56 in all &amp;#8212; is looming, lawyers told London's High Court. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/61552c7a-0c57-4206-971f-e2453c0e4ade.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="496" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/61552c7a-0c57-4206-971f-e2453c0e4ade.jpg" width="120" height="149" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;File - Heather Mills attends the Achilles Hope and Possibility Race in New York's Central Park in this June 27, 2010 file photo . Heather Mills took on Piers Morgan at Britain's media ethics inquiry, Thursday, Feb.9, 2012, where the ex-model trashed Morgan's earlier testimony, saying that one of her private voicemails, which was played to the CNN interviewer and former tabloid editor, could have been obtained only through phone hacking. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/9296a17f-d60c-4a93-a457-14571068af08.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="364" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/9296a17f-d60c-4a93-a457-14571068af08.jpg" width="120" height="169" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - A Monday Nov. 21, 2011 photo from files showing British actor Hugh Grant arriving to give evidence at the the Leveson inquiry in London. J.K Rowling described how press intrusion made her feel like a hostage, Hugh Grant traded insults with a newspaper editor and a former tabloid reporter insisted that only evildoers had any need of privacy. The first phase of Britain's media ethics inquiry ended this week after 40 days of dramatic hearings that heard from 184 witnesses &amp;#8212; celebrities, journalists, editors, academics and lawyers &amp;#8212; and revealed wildly differing perspectives on the murky workings of the tabloid press. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/090148a8-5699-49eb-968e-7a4e80e61b63.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="353" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/090148a8-5699-49eb-968e-7a4e80e61b63.jpg" width="120" height="174" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - A Thursday Dec. 4, 2008 photo from files showing author JK Rowling reading to around 200 schoolchildren at a tea party in the  Parliament Hall Edinburgh Thursday Dec, 4, 2008, where she read passages from her new book &quot;The Tales of Beedle the Bard&quot;.  J.K Rowling described how press intrusion made her feel like a hostage, Hugh Grant traded insults with a newspaper editor and a former tabloid reporter insisted that only evildoers had any need of privacy. The first phase of Britain's media ethics inquiry ended this week after 40 days of dramatic hearings that heard from 184 witnesses &amp;#8212; celebrities, journalists, editors, academics and lawyers &amp;#8212; and revealed wildly differing perspectives on the murky workings of the tabloid press. (AP Photo/ David Cheskin, File, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Ex-police officer arrested in UK bribery probe</title>
<description><![CDATA[A former British police officer has been arrested as part of an investigation into the bribery of police by U.K. tabloid journalists, the U.K. police watchdog said Tuesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/03/9943582-ex-police-officer-arrested-in-uk-bribery-probe</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/01/03/9943582-ex-police-officer-arrested-in-uk-bribery-probe</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>david-cameron</category><category>world-news</category><category>scotland-yard</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>phone-hacking</category><category>rebekah-brooks</category><pubDate>Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:24:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/25dcc963-67c9-4aaf-ae6a-d057b91e3d01.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="231" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/25dcc963-67c9-4aaf-ae6a-d057b91e3d01.jpg" width="120" height="70" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Kelvin MacKenzie, who edited the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sun between 1981 and 1994, leaves the High Court in central London after giving evidence to the Leveson enquiry Monday Jan. 9, 2012. The blunt-spoken former newspaper editor who once said that if a story &quot;sounded right it was probably right&quot; told Britain's media ethics inquiry Monday that tabloids are the victim of snobbery and double standards in the media. (AP Photo/ Lewis Whyld, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT  NO SALES  NO ARCHIVE&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/492ea767-98e8-4e0d-af9d-b9e0533fd24d.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="354" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/492ea767-98e8-4e0d-af9d-b9e0533fd24d.jpg" width="120" height="174" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Kelvin MacKenzie, who edited the Rupert Murdoch-owned Sun between 1981 and 1994, leaves the High Court in central London after giving evidence to the Leveson enquiry Monday Jan. 9, 2012. The blunt-spoken former newspaper editor who once said that if a story &quot;sounded right it was probably right&quot; told Britain's media ethics inquiry Monday that tabloids are the victim of snobbery and double standards in the media. (AP Photo/ Lewis Whyld, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT  NO SALES  NO ARCHIVE&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Murdoch media pays 7 more phone hacking victims</title>
<description><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch's News International has paid out settlements to seven more prominent figures in the wake of the phone hacking scandal at its now-shuttered News of the World tabloid.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raphael G. Satter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Raphael G. Satter]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/20/9580202-murdoch-media-pays-7-more-phone-hacking-victims</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/20/9580202-murdoch-media-pays-7-more-phone-hacking-victims</guid><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>payments</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>world-news</category><category>news-international</category><category>phone-hacking</category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:47:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Lawyers air longterm phone-hacking suspicions</title>
<description><![CDATA[Witnesses continued to chip away at News International's claims that it didn't know phone hacking was widespread at its News of the World tabloid, with a former legal adviser for the company testifying Tuesday he knew years ago the company's defense would not stand up.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassandra Vinograd]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Cassandra Vinograd]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/07/9270345-lawyers-air-longterm-phone-hacking-suspicions</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/12/07/9270345-lawyers-air-longterm-phone-hacking-suspicions</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>world-news</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>rupert-murdoch-owned</category><category>phone-hacking</category><pubDate>Wed, 7 Dec 2011 11:56:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/01c740d1-cbdc-42b3-ba13-dea5a1631ff8.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="396" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/01c740d1-cbdc-42b3-ba13-dea5a1631ff8.jpg" width="120" height="155" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Former New of the World reporter Neville Thurlbeck arrives at the High Court in London to give evidence to Britain's media ethics Leveson Inquiry Monday Dec. 12, 2011. The inquiry is looking into issues arising from the News International phone hacking scandal. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau/PA)  UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>James Murdoch quits board of UK news publisher</title>
<description><![CDATA[News International executive James Murdoch has resigned as a director of the companies that publish The Sun and The Times of London newspapers, the company confirmed Wednesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raphael G. Satter]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Raphael G. Satter]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/23/8977631-james-murdoch-quits-board-of-uk-news-publisher</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/23/8977631-james-murdoch-quits-board-of-uk-news-publisher</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>murdoch</category><category>world-news</category><category>news-international</category><category>james-murdoch</category><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:16:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Murdoch lawyer says phone hacking 'shameful'</title>
<description><![CDATA[A lawyer for Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers said Tuesday that phone hacking was wrong and shameful, but insisted the huge criminal investigation it sparked proves journalists are not above the law.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jill Lawless]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jill Lawless]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/08/8702316-murdoch-lawyer-says-phone-hacking-shameful</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/08/8702316-murdoch-lawyer-says-phone-hacking-shameful</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>technology</category><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>prince-william</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>world-news</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>james-murdoch</category><category>phone-hacking</category><pubDate>Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:51:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/6abbd0fd-e4d5-48d0-8c6f-51923e16a257.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="297" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/6abbd0fd-e4d5-48d0-8c6f-51923e16a257.jpg" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;File - Chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch, right, and his son James Murdoch, chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia arrive at his residence in central London, in this Sunday, July 10, 2011 file photo. A private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World conducted surveillance on Prince William as well of dozens of politicians and celebrities, the BBC reported Tuesday Nov. 8 2011. The broadcaster said private eye Derek Webb spied on the prince in 2006 while William was in Gloucestershire, western England, where his father Prince Charles has a country home.  (AP Photo / Sang Tan, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/6ad69681-c8e1-42cb-80e9-dd0af2f05e16.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="236" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/6ad69681-c8e1-42cb-80e9-dd0af2f05e16.jpg" width="120" height="71" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this image made from video provided by the Parliamentary Recording Unit via APTN, News Corp. executive James Murdoch speaks during his second appearance before British parliamentarians investigating the country's phone hacking scandal in London, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. Murdoch insisted on Thursday he wasn't told the whole truth about phone hacking at the News of the World, blaming subordinates for keeping him in the dark about the extent of wrongdoing at his company's flagship Sunday tabloid. (AP Photo/Parliamentary Recording Unit via APTN) NO ARCHIVE, EDITORIAL USE ONLY&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b16c0501-6b0a-4c23-8e2f-1687c28798c7.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="370" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b16c0501-6b0a-4c23-8e2f-1687c28798c7.jpg" width="120" height="166" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this image made from video provided by the Parliamentary Recording Unit via APTN, News Corp. executive James Murdoch speaks during his second appearance before British parliamentarians investigating the country's phone hacking scandal in London, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. Murdoch insisted on Thursday he wasn't told the whole truth about phone hacking at the News of the World, blaming subordinates for keeping him in the dark about the extent of wrongdoing at his company's flagship Sunday tabloid. (AP Photo/Parliamentary Recording Unit via APTN) NO ARCHIVE, EDITORIAL USE ONLY&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/0866d30f-2f89-4916-bfd2-6b7bb103304c.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/0866d30f-2f89-4916-bfd2-6b7bb103304c.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A campainer for change of media regulation in a puppet of James Murdoch, Chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, protests outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. James Murdoch is due to appear Thursday at the House of Commons Select Committee for the second time for questioning on phone hacking. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/aa9a4355-0fe7-4e1e-9ff6-7077514426c1.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/aa9a4355-0fe7-4e1e-9ff6-7077514426c1.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Campainers for change of media regulation, with one in a puppet of James Murdoch, Chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, protest outside Parliament's Portculis House in London where James Murdoch is to to appear, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. James Murdoch is due to appear Thursday at the House of Commons Select Committee for the second time for questioning on phone hacking. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c631b37a-7782-4370-a8a7-ced91a236c5e.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="275" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c631b37a-7782-4370-a8a7-ced91a236c5e.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A police officer moves on campainers for change of media regulation, with one in a puppet of James Murdoch, Chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, arrive at Parliament's Portculis House in London where James Murdoch is to to appear, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. James Murdoch is due to appear Thursday at the House of Commons Select Committee for the second time for questioning on phone hacking. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/db8f87e6-0d0c-4617-bf5e-91c7e4cab857.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/db8f87e6-0d0c-4617-bf5e-91c7e4cab857.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Campainers for change of media regulation, with one in a puppet of James Murdoch, Chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. James Murdoch is due to appear Thursday at the House of Commons Select Committee for the second time for questioning on phone hacking. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/5c26e534-48d3-4e9e-9511-210a188b47da.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="327" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/5c26e534-48d3-4e9e-9511-210a188b47da.jpg" width="120" height="188" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A campainer for change of media regulation in a puppet of James Murdoch, Chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, protests outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. James Murdoch is due to appear Thursday at the House of Commons Select Committee for the second time for questioning on phone hacking. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/abdb9715-2ece-401a-906d-2e2b702ec0bd.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/abdb9715-2ece-401a-906d-2e2b702ec0bd.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Campainers for change of media regulation, with one in a puppet of James Murdoch, Chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011. James Murdoch is due to appear Thursday at the House of Commons Select Committee for the second time for questioning on phone hacking. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>BBC: Murdoch tabloid spied on Prince William</title>
<description><![CDATA[The BBC says a private investigator working for Rupert Murdoch's News of the World conducted surveillance on politicians, celebrities and Prince William.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/01/8581836-bbc-murdoch-tabloid-spied-on-prince-william</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/01/8581836-bbc-murdoch-tabloid-spied-on-prince-william</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>prince-william</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>world-news</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>phone-hacking</category><category>rebekah-brooks</category><pubDate>Tue, 1 Nov 2011 17:16:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>News Corp. warned in '08 its journalists broke law</title>
<description><![CDATA[Newly released documents show that a legal adviser to Rupert Murdoch's newspapers warned the company three years ago that several senior journalists at the News of the World were using illegal methods.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/25/8481523-news-corp-warned-in-08-its-journalists-broke-law</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/25/8481523-news-corp-warned-in-08-its-journalists-broke-law</guid><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>associated-press</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>world-news</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>andy-coulson</category><category>phone-hacking</category><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:09:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/56d4d2d4-f050-48b4-a629-b55386dc1fc8.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="295" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/56d4d2d4-f050-48b4-a629-b55386dc1fc8.jpg" width="120" height="89" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE --  In this  April 13, 2010 file photo, Andy Coulson, the ruling Conservative Party's Director of Communications speaks on the phone in London, England.  Rupert Murdoch's News International promised to pay all of News of the World editor Andy Coulson's legal fees only a month after he resigned from the paper in disgrace, according to a court document obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday Oct. 25. 2011. (AP Photo/Oli Scarff, pool, file)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>NATO delays formal decision to end Libya mission</title>
<description><![CDATA[NATO unexpectedly postponed a definite decision to end its bombing campaign in Libya as consultations continued Wednesday with the U.N. and the country's interim government over how and when to wind down the operation.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Slobodan Lekic]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Slobodan Lekic]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/20/8415771-nato-delays-formal-decision-to-end-libya-mission</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/10/20/8415771-nato-delays-formal-decision-to-end-libya-mission</guid><category>eu</category><category>apnewsalert</category><category>libya</category><category>nato</category><category>sinn-fein</category><category>moammar-gadhafi</category><category>gerry-adams</category><category>world-news</category><category>real-ira</category><category>news-international</category><category>anders-fogh-rasmussen</category><category>irishman-michael-campbell</category><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:13:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/fc774d91-6286-4ac5-a9fa-5f620cae39ae.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="260" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/fc774d91-6286-4ac5-a9fa-5f620cae39ae.jpg" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, a Libyan former rebel fighter kicks a graffiti depicting Moammar Gadhafi with the words in Arabic reading, &quot;God is Great&quot;, on the Libyan-Tunisian border checkpoint of Ras Ajdir. The death Thursday of Gadhafi, two months after he was driven from power and into hiding, decisively buries the nearly 42-year regime that had turned the oil-rich country into an international pariah and his own personal fiefdom. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/06008be7-608c-4ea2-9abd-fb1452d152e5.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/06008be7-608c-4ea2-9abd-fb1452d152e5.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Libyan celebrate after the Muslim Friday prayer at Martyrs Square in Tripoli, Libya, Friday Oct. 21, 2011. The death Thursday of Gadhafi, two months after he was driven from power and into hiding, decisively buries the nearly 42-year regime that had turned the oil-rich country into an international pariah and his own personal fiefdom. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/33aa445f-a80a-4f60-b1f3-bc8dd200d97b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="230" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/33aa445f-a80a-4f60-b1f3-bc8dd200d97b.jpg" width="120" height="69" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Friday, Oct. 21, 2011. NATO announced on Friday that it would cease its operations in Libya on Oct. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Hugh Grant: Reform needed after phone hacking saga</title>
<description><![CDATA[Actor Hugh Grant says Britain's leader has told him he will support reforms of the country's scandal-hungry media in the wake of the tabloid phone hacking scandal.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Stringer]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[David Stringer]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/27/7997540-hugh-grant-reform-needed-after-phone-hacking-saga</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/27/7997540-hugh-grant-reform-needed-after-phone-hacking-saga</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>world-news</category><category>hacking</category><category>news-international</category><category>actor-hugh-grant</category><category>phone-hacking</category><category>neville-thurlbeck</category><pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:56:09 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/c0bb54f5-ea35-42b0-b844-4ed06a2c5d4b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="378" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/c0bb54f5-ea35-42b0-b844-4ed06a2c5d4b.jpg" width="120" height="163" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This is a April 6, 2011 file photo of former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck.  A British employment tribunal filing shows that  Thurlbeck is claiming unfair dismissal from his former publisher, Rupert Murdoch's News International. News International said Wednesday Sept. 28, 2011 it &quot;will vigorously contest the case,&quot; filed on Sept. 13. Thurlbeck is expected to claim he was sacked for whistleblowing in the phone-hacking scandal that brought down his tabloid.  (AP Photo/Yui Mok/PA, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/cb0ad33f-2e21-4ebd-abe4-3cea6fba71e9.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="275" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/cb0ad33f-2e21-4ebd-abe4-3cea6fba71e9.jpg" width="120" height="83" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;British actor Hugh Grant, right,  meets Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, during the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester England on Tuesday Oct. 4, 2011. Grant raised issues regarding the recent News of the World phone hacking scandal during their conversation. (AP Photo/Carl de Souza, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/dd60f39b-e03a-4716-a9b9-b349ddf0b4c8.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="260" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/dd60f39b-e03a-4716-a9b9-b349ddf0b4c8.jpg" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Actor Hugh Grant speaks at a Media Standards Trust fringe event at Britain's Conservative Party Conference, in Manchester, England, Tuesday Oct. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Jon Super).  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Murdoch firm to sell its London site</title>
<description><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch's News International says it will sell its complex in the east London area of Wapping.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/05/7615773-murdoch-firm-to-sell-its-london-site</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/05/7615773-murdoch-firm-to-sell-its-london-site</guid><category>business</category><category>eu</category><category>britain</category><category>rupert-murdoch</category><category>news-international</category><pubDate>Mon, 5 Sep 2011 15:21:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a2eb5f06-8706-4277-b53f-cac1fa5b96d8.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="336" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a2eb5f06-8706-4277-b53f-cac1fa5b96d8.jpg" width="120" height="183" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Friday, July 15, 2011 file photo a security guard walks outside the building that houses the headquarters of News International in Wapping  London. Rupert Murdoch's News International said Monday Sept. 5, 2011 it will sell its complex in the east London area of Wapping.The company says it will relocate to another area in east London.The company says in a statement that &quot;current market conditions&quot; led to a decision &quot;not to proceed with remodeling the Wapping site.&quot;  (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b3a4984a-f1b6-49ab-b183-168c46d68e17.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="213" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b3a4984a-f1b6-49ab-b183-168c46d68e17.jpg" width="120" height="64" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This is a Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011 file photo of a  pedestrian he passes signs at the entrance to News International in Wapping, London.   Rupert Murdoch's News International said Monday Sept. 5, 2011 it will sell its complex in the east London area of Wapping.The company says it will relocate to another area in east London.The company says in a statement that &quot;current market conditions&quot; led to a decision &quot;not to proceed with remodeling the Wapping site.&quot; (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>