Gordon Brown today denied behaving aggressively towards Rebekah Brooks when he telephoned her expecting an apology for negative coverage, only to be told more was to come.

Former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown today criticised newspaper coverage of UK involvement in Afghanistan.

David Cameron, George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Gordon Brown are among a string of major political figures due to appear before the Leveson Inquiry next week.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair today told an inquiry into press ethics that he found it difficult to be "objective" about the issue of media relations.

Rupert Murdoch believed the power wielded by his newspapers benefited his wider commercial interests, former UK cabinet minister Jack Straw said today.

Lord Justice Leveson defended his inquiry into media standards in the UK today and said he “was not in any way” seeking to challenge the right of Parliament to examine any of the issues his inquiry is covering.

The truth about how murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s phone messages were deleted may never emerge, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.

David Cameron texted Rebekah Brooks telling her to “keep her head up” in the week that she resigned as chief executive of News International, it has been alleged.

The British government has applied to be given the right to see Leveson Inquiry documents and witness statements in advance.

Rebekah Brooks will appear before the Leveson Inquiry next week.

In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron's Government is coming under increasing pressure over its ties to Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

Rupert Murdoch faces a two-day grilling under oath at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards this week.

Julian Assange has claimed he has suffered from inaccurate and negative media coverage “possibly on a scale not seen since the abuse of the McCanns”.

A leaked story about the reopened investigation into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence had a “negative” effect on the probe, the officer who led it said today.

News International (NI) “closed the ranks” and refused to co-operate with Scotland Yard’s original phone hacking investigation, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.

A Scotland Yard chief forced to resign over the phone-hacking scandal gives evidence today at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards.

Rebekah Brooks’ phone was hacked twice a week by colleagues at the News of the World while she was editing The Sun, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.

Three Scotland Yard officers involved in the original police investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World (NotW) will give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry today.

A judge conducting an inquiry into press standards in Britain today praised a award-winning foreign correspondent killed in Syria.

The former wife of Paul McCartney never authorised former News of the World editor Piers Morgan, or anybody else, to listen to her voicemails, she told the inquiry into British press standards today.

Three senior judges in the UK ruled today that some journalists can remain anonymous when giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards.

It was “very unlikely” that former editor Piers Morgan did not know about alleged phone hacking at the Daily Mirror, the Leveson Inquiry heard today.

Former tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan today told an inquiry into press standards in the UK that he was unaware of any phone hacking when in charge at the Daily Mirror.

Detectives in Britain think it “unlikely” that News International journalists deleted voicemail from a mobile phone belonging to murdered teenager Milly Dowler, a lawyer told an inquiry into press standards today.

Former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck today defended the public interest of publishing stories which alleged that David Beckham had cheated on his wife and F1 boss Max Mosley had taken part in a “Nazi orgy”.

The final total of people whose phones were hacked by the News of the World will be about 800, it was reported today.

Former Downing St communications director Alastair Campbell was giving evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into press standards today – although details of his testimony had already been leaked to a blogger.

News of the World reporters routinely hacked people’s voicemails and did so because it was in the public interest, a former journalist at the now-defunct paper said today.

A former Daily Star journalist claimed today that he received threats and may have had his phone hacked after he quit the paper in protest at what he claimed was its anti-Muslim propaganda.

Singer Charlotte Church waived a £100,000 (€116,382) fee to sing at Rupert Murdoch's wedding when she was 13, in exchange for a promise of favourable publicity, she said today.

Former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley took the News of the World to court for its “sick Nazi orgy” story about him because he was so keen to “demonstrate they were liars”, he said today.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling and actress Sienna Miller will give evidence about their experiences of media intrusion to the Leveson Inquiry in London today.