Gannett, the publisher of USA Today, raised its unsolicited offer for Tribune Publishing to $15 (€13.25) per share from $12.25, valuing the publisher of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times at about $475m.

A British newspaper reporter and an American photographer have been kidnapped by Colombian rebels, the first foreign journalists to be abducted in recent memory in the country’s long war.

A media-sponsored review of disputed ballots from the 2000 US presidential election in Florida was ‘‘fascinating’’ but it doesn’t change anything, Senator Joseph Lieberman said yesterday as he reaffirmed his support for President Bush.