In the midst of his company’s hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch headed to his London apartment and emerged with the News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks on his arm. Asked by a reporter about his priorities, Murdoch answered: “This one,” gesturing with his thumb to Brooks.

Rupert Murdoch’s third divorce could become the most expensive in history.

British broadcaster Sky was today found to be "fit and proper" to hold on to its broadcasting licence after its parent company was embroiled in the phone-hacking scandal.

News Corporation’s board has announced its full confidence in Rupert Murdoch’s “fitness” and its support for him to remain at the helm of the company.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is not "a fit person" to run a major international corporation, a committee of MPs said today.

Rupert Murdoch rejected accusations that he used his media empire to play puppet master to a succession of prime ministers, electrifying a media inquiry that has shaken the British government and unnerved much of the establishment.

James Murdoch yesterday resigned as chairman of BSkyB to prevent his links to a phone-hacking scandal undermining the group, whose broadcast licence is under scrutiny in Britain.

David Cameron, the British prime minister, has admitted he rode a horse given by police to Rebekah Brooks, a Rupert Murdoch newspaper editor.

Bahrain is to host the headquarters for Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s new international Arabic news network, despite months of unrest.

RUPERT MURDOCH’S News International is to donate £2.8 million (€2.05m) from the last edition of the News of the World, it said, as it set out how it had handled the closure of the tabloid at the centre of a phone-hacking scandal.

An inquiry into the Australian print media will examine increasing regulation but will not go as far as breaking up the nation’s largest newspaper empire owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, a government minister said today.

Australia’s government has promised a media inquiry amid complaints by MPs that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is biased and owns too many of the nation’s newspapers.

JAMES MURDOCH, the boss of News Corporation’s UK arm, today refused to accept a $6 million (€4.2m) bonus in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.

CLAIMS that James Murdoch knew three years ago that phone hacking at the News of the World was not confined to a single “rogue” reporter have been referred to the police.

Claims that James Murdoch knew three years ago that phone hacking at the News of the World was not confined to a single “rogue” reporter have been referred to the police in the UK.

BRITISH police investigating phone hacking and police bribery by the defunct tabloid News of the World arrested a 43-year-old woman yesterday who British media identified as Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch’s former British chief executive.

MEDIA tycoon Rupert Murdoch yesterday withdrew News Corporation’s £8 billion bid to take over satellite broadcaster BSkyB in a dramatic response to the “firestorm” of public and political anger over phone hacking at the News of the World.

HACKERS took control of the Twitter account of FoxNews.com’s political news feed and sent several false tweets saying that US President Barack Obama had been shot dead.

A PUBLIC apology from Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm, designed to contain an escalating phone-hacking scandal, looked to have failed after a judge said civil cases against the firm could run into next year at least.

City heavyweights AstraZeneca and BSkyB will kick off the blue-chip results season in the UK this week, but the major focus will be on figures detailing the performance of the UK economy in the final three months of 2010.

The FTSE 100 Index marched further towards the 6000 mark as stocks shook off disappointing economic news in the UK and US.

Social-networking site MySpace today announced it will cut 300 international positions and close at least four offices outside the US as it looks to reduce costs and narrow its territory coverage.

International media magnate Rupert Murdoch has sealed a deal to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. for US$5bn (€3.7bn), ending a century of family ownership and adding a new crown jewel to his global media empire, News Corp.

Billionaire investor Ron Burkle is working with a union representing workers at Dow Jones & Co to explore alternatives to Rupert Murdoch's $5bn (€3.69bn) bid for the company, which publishes The Wall Street Journal.

Wall Street recovered from a mostly down session today, ekeing out a gain as investors brushed off another slide in Chinese stocks.

Wall Street rose moderately today, carving out its fourth straight weekly gain amid a fresh round of corporate takeover news and employment figures that largely met expectations.

Jennifer Lopez says she has found a perfect match in her husband, singer Marc Anthony.

Stocks slid today when waning enthusiasm among investors ahead of the holiday weekend overshadowed data showing higher consumer spending and a jump in sales of big-ticket goods in November. A weak bond market also weighed on stocks.

IN a world dominated by corporate wealth, people power is a scarce commodity.

TWO men have been arrested in Connecticut on allegations they had illegal sexual contact with minors they met through MySpace.com, a popular virtual hangout for children and teenagers.

Oil worries and a raft of economic uncertainties plagued Wall Street today, sending stocks lower as investors collected profits after the strong gains of the previous two sessions.

Lachlan Murdoch resigned today as an executive at his billionaire father Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

They range from the Dalai Lama to the inventors of the Blackberry, from terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire News Corp, which owns the Fox television operations, is planning to unveil a cable TV channel by the end of this year.

NewsCorp, the media company controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said its third-quarter profit increased 69%, boosted by strength at its filmed entertainment and TV businesses.

The High Court today appointed an examiner to Irish cable operation Princes Holdings, which trades as Chorus.The court heard that the company had debts of €385m.

US cable group Liberty Media Corp has acquired a further 9.15% voting interest in Rupert Murdoch's

Rupert Murdock told shareholders at the annual general meeting meeting in London that the

Star TV plans to lay off or redeploy 100 Hong Kong employees, many of them on the technical side of the business, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday, citing company officials.

China is in negotiations to let Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and AOL Time Warner broadcast directly to television audiences in limited areas, the Chinese government’s broadcast authority said Wednesday.