News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch has stepped down from a string of boards overseeing The Sun, The Times, and Sunday Times newspapers in Britain, the company said in an internal memo on Saturday.

James Murdoch relinquished control of his family’s British newspaper empire yesterday, stepping down as executive chairman of News International.

James Murdoch is to step down as executive chairman of News International to focus on expanding international TV businesses, the company announced today.

Rupert Murdoch began work on the first Sunday edition of his top-selling British tabloid The Sun, seven months after the closure of its scandal-ridden sister title News of the World.

The Sun on Sunday will publish for the first time next weekend, News International announced tonight.

Rupert Murdoch is in the UK today to take charge of the latest crisis involving one of his titles.

Journalists from Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun have contacted a trade union to discuss suing the tabloid’s owners, the union said, after five staff were arrested in a police bribery probe.

Rupert Murdoch is expected to fly to London this week after reassuring staff he would not sell The Sun in the wake of a second wave of arrests at the newspaper.

JAMES MURDOCH has resigned from the boards of the publishing units within News Corp’s British newspaper arm, which used to include the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.

James Murdoch has resigned as a director of the companies which publish The Sun and The Times, according to documents filed with Companies House in London.

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.

More than 100 jobs are set to be axed at News International, it was announced today.

FORMER News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks yesterday became the most high-profile casualty of the phone-hacking scandal, quitting as chief executive of News International.

British Prime Minister David Cameron believes Rebekah Brooks took “the right decision” in quitting as chief executive of News International in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World, Downing Street said today.

The chief executive of News Corporation’s Italian satellite broadcasting arm today replaced Rebekah Brooks at News International.

News International CEO resigns - full texts of messages to staff from Rebekah Brooks and James Murdoch