British prosecutors have charged a former aide to British Prime Minister David Cameron and a close confidant of media baron Rupert Murdoch with illegal eavesdropping on voice mail, authorities said Tuesday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron was quizzed Thursday about his links to former top Murdoch executive Rebekah Brooks and his decision to hire former News of the World editor Andy Coulson.
British Prime Minister David Cameron appears at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Alastair Campbell discusses the first criminal charges in the UK phone hacking scandal with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
David Cameron's former communications chief will testify before the UK ethics inquiry. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
A former Rupert Murdoch newspaper editor who became a spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron told a probe into the British press that he did not know about phone hacking while he was editor.
Eight UK government ministers were given the right Friday to see written witness statements before the witnesses testify to an independent inquiry into phone hacking and news media ethics.
A UK lawmakers' report takes aim at Rupert Murdoch's role in the phone hacking scandal. CNN's Dan Rivers reports.
Former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson have been summoned to testify next week before a judge-led inquiry probing phone hacking and news media ethics.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's e-mail may have been hacked by private investigators working for British newspapers when he was the country's top finance official, the Independent newspaper reported Monday.
CNN's Dan Rivers outlines the evidence Piers Morgan gave to the Leveson Inquiry into British press ethics.
British newspapers print "complete nonsense" in support of agendas set by their owners, former Tony Blair spokesman Alastair Campbell said Wednesday.
The editors of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid knew that their reporters were hacking phones in search of stories, former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan testified Tuesday.
Police in London dropped their bid Tuesday to force The Guardian newspaper to reveal confidential sources who provided information on the phone-hacking scandal.
Police in London have applied for a court order under the Official Secrets Act to try to force the Guardian newspaper to reveal confidential sources who have provided information on the phone-hacking scandal.
Hugh Grant and J.K. Rowling are among dozens of celebrities given permission to participate in a top-level inquiry into phone hacking by British journalists, the judge leading the investigation said Wednesday.
News International chief executive James Murdoch is to be recalled to testify before a parliamentary committee over a phone-hacking scandal involving journalists at the now defunct News of the World newspaper, a spokesman for the panel said Tuesday.
Four top British police officers will not face further police investigation in connection with an inquiry into phone hacking by journalists, the Independent Police Complaints Commission said Wednesday.
CNN's Dan Rivers and Jim Clancy discuss the implications of accusations made by a former News of the World reporter.
Phone hacking was "widely discussed" at News of the World, the royal correspondent jailed and sacked for the practice wrote in 2007, according to documents released Tuesday by a Parliament committee investigating the scandal.
A 71-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an investigation into phone hacking, London's Metropolitan Police said Tuesday.
CNN's Dan Rivers takes a look at the latest twist in the 'News of the World' phone hacking scandal.
A British police investigation into illegal activity by journalists appears to have expanded beyond Rupert Murdoch's disgraced and now defunct News of the World tabloid.
Prime Minister David Cameron told British lawmakers during a heated session Wednesday that if he had known then what he knows now about his one-time communications director, former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, he would not have hired him.
In parliament, British Prime Minister David Cameron defends himself as he's grilled over the phone hacking scandal.
Investigators have found no sign of foul play in the death of a man identified as the whistleblower behind the scandal surrounding media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News International, British police announced Tuesday.
Accusations that journalists at Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers hacked into the phones of politicians, celebrities and unwitting people caught up in the news -- including child murder victims -- have severely bruised his media empire.
One of the first journalists to go on the record and allege phone hacking at News of the World was found dead Monday, the British Press Association said.
Ex-News of the World editor Paul McMullan praises phone-hacking whistle-blower Sean Hoare, who was found dead Monday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron will cut short his trip to South Africa to deal with the nation's phone-hacking scandal, his office confirmed Monday -- another day of dizzying developments that also saw a second top police official resign and the announcement of a broader police corruption probe.
Former Murdoch executive Rebekah Brooks is arrested in connection with phone-hacking probe. Atika Shubert reports.
Rupert Murdoch apologized to the British public with full-page advertisements in seven national newspapers Saturday, a day after two senior executives resigned over a phone hacking scandal that has engulfed his media empire.
Two key executives in Rupert Murdoch's media empire resigned Friday, and their former boss added public relations muscle as he began a series of apologies in the phone-hacking scandal.
The Dowler family's attorney Mark Lewis says Murdoch has apologized to the family in a private meeting.
Who has lost the most authority: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch or British Prime Minister David Cameron?
Alastair Campbell says the end of News of the World is a result of criminal activity and extraordinary mismanagement.
The scandal that brought down Britain's biggest Sunday newspaper widened Monday with allegations that journalists from other News International papers improperly obtained personal information about former Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
"The Guardian" and others report the scandal that hit "News Of The World" may hit more of Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
Staff at the scandal-hit News of the World are preparing the final edition of the best-selling British Sunday tabloid.
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch flew into London Sunday, hours after the final edition of the News of the World hit the stands, forced to close by a scandal over illegal eavesdropping and bribery that has outraged Britain.
Staffers at the scandal-hit News of the World emotionally departed their London newsroom for the last time Saturday night, proudly holding up the final edition of the best-selling British Sunday tabloid.
CNN's Tom Foreman discusses the controversy surrounding Rupert Murdoch closing "The News of the World" amid foul play.
British PM David Cameron defends hiring Andy Coulson, saying it was a second chance that didn't work out.
The phone-tapping allegations that forced the closure of embattled British tabloid News of the World may have a damaging ripple effect across Rupert Murdoch's vast media empire, according to some analysts.
CNN's Richard Quest takes a look at the media empire run by Rupert Murdoch.
The embattled British tabloid News of the World, one of the oldest and best-selling newspapers in Britain, will shut down after Sunday's issue, its owner, News International, told CNN Thursday.
In 2005, the best-selling weekly UK tabloid News of the World published a seemingly mundane story about Prince William's injuring his knee.
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch's flagship British Sunday tabloid newspaper officially apologized Sunday for hacking into voice mails, in a scandal which has affected celebrities, politicians and royal household staff.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wrote to the police last summer to ask if his voice mail had been hacked into, a source close to the situation told CNN Sunday.
An emotional moment from Piers Morgan's England interview show, "Life Stories," with then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
David Cameron missed prime minister's questions to be with his dying father Wednesday, depriving lawmakers of their first chance to grill him in public since the revival of a scandal involving his top public relations aide.
London's Metropolitan Police said it might reopen an investigation into the alleged hacking of phones of top British politicians and celebrities by a tabloid newspaper, even as it defended its original probe.
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