Voice mails left by Paul McCartney for his then-girlfriend Heather Mills were illegally accessed and heard by a former employee of a major British newspaper group, Mills told an independent investigation into press ethics Thursday.
The editor of Britain's Daily Mirror told a press ethics investigation Monday that he had no knowledge of phone hacking at the tabloid, though it "might well have" taken place at the tabloid newspaper without his knowledge.
Singer Charlotte Church on Monday blasted the News of the World tabloid for its decision to publish a lurid story about her father having an affair while her mother was getting treatment for mental illness.
So much has been written to mark Sir Alex Ferguson's 25th anniversary as Manchester United manager that if he reaches 30 years in the job in 2016 we may have only awkward silence left with which to greet the big day. "Well done Sir Alex. Um ... please see 2011." My contribution to the effort to preserve a few superlatives for the occasion will be to throw Ferguson an admiring nod (he's not done a bad job, all told), and focus instead on a club down the road.
Journalists working for a large British newspaper group have been asked to give a written promise that they have not been involved in phone hacking or other illegal activity, the company said Friday.
A British lawmaker has apologized to CNN host and former tabloid editor Piers Morgan for wrongly stating that he "had been open about personally hacking phones" in his memoir.
Families of victims of the 9/11 attacks will meet with top Justice Department officials in late August to discuss whether any of their relatives' phone messages were hacked by employees of News Corp., likely participants said Wednesday.
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.
The royal couple reportedly received duty-free vouchers because their movie didn't work
CNN's Piers Morgan responds to charges that he hacked phones while editor at The Daily Mirror.
Piers Morgan, host of CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" and a former editor of two British tabloid newspapers, rejected as "nonsense" a British lawmaker's allegations Tuesday that he participated in phone hacking.
Oprah discusses how she dealt with her biggest failure. Watch the entire interview on CNN January 17 at 9 p.m. ET.
Closed-circuit television footage that led British police to identify Stephen Griffiths as a serial killer shows the self-proclaimed "Crossbow Cannibal" carrying the weapon in the hallway outside his apartment shortly after he killed one of his victims, then raising his middle finger to the camera.
Video shows "Crossbow Cannibal" Stephen Griffiths carrying a crossbow outside his apartment after killing a victim.
Speculation was intense Friday over where and when Prince William will marry Kate Middleton, with many predicting the couple will choose the iconic, thousand-year-old Westminster Abbey.
Dr. Phil McGraw joins CNN's Anderson Cooper to discuss bullying and how parents can help stop it.
Meredith Kercher was 21 years old when she was killed. She grew up in a house in the town of Coulsdon, South of London.
British tabloid photos show the Harry Potter star in a very giddy mood
"I've been in some relationships where I've felt terribly alone," the screen hunk admits
Despite photos of his canoodling with costar Kristen Stewart, he goes on record as unattached (again)
A royal chauffeur was suspended Sunday after he allegedly allowed undercover reporters from a British tabloid to enter Buckingham Palace in exchange for cash.
Lately, a new kind of sisterly love seems to be in the air. In the past few years, Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon left a boyfriend after a decade and a half and started dating a woman (and talked openly about it).
Britain's Prince Harry has been sent on course on equality and diversity after a series of high profile racial gaffes have damaged the young royal's reputation, it was reported Thursday.
Prince Harry could face disciplinary action for comments about fellow soldiers. Jason Carroll reports.
British broadcaster Channel 4 has been criticized for creating a new television show which looks at how children as young as eight would cope without their parents for two weeks.
The couple's eight-year marriage is terminated with a one-minute court proceeding
And the American Idol judge insists he and ex Terri Seymour are "still friends"
A trip to Africa inspires the singer to help as many children as she can
The actor sues a British tabloid after it claimed he was caught playing on-camera
The director buys two equestrian-themed drawings for his wife's 50th
The struggling supermodel says chatty Posh helped her through recent arrest ordeal
According to one U.K. paper, rocker Jamie Hince was seen moving out of the model's London home
There were no fond farewells from the British media as U.S. President George W. Bush made his final stop on his last European tour before leaving office, with several papers using the occasion for a damning assessment of his legacy.
People.com: Posh: Soccer Mom?updated: Wed Dec 26 2007 12:02:00
Sporty Spice, she ain't.
With John Darwin's arrest Saturday, and Anne Darwin's early Sunday, one of the strangest crime stories in recent British history may have reached its end
John Darwin's wife said her husband faked his own death to avoid mounting debts and holed up in the family home for years, hiding from his own sons, according to UK media reports.
The two sons of a British man who suddenly reappeared five years after he was thought to have drowned at sea said Thursday they feared they may have been the victims of a "huge scam" carried out by their own parents.
In this case, the wildest, most outlandish criminal conspiracy theories increasingly appear to be right on target
They've only lived in the U.S. for four months, but David Beckham says his kids are already starting to sound like natives.
Amy Winehouse's husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, was charged Saturday in a witness tampering case, Scotland Yard has confirmed to PEOPLE.
British rocker Pete Doherty has checked into rehab, a source confirms to PEOPLE.
Doctors taking the modern Hippocratic oath swear to "abstain from whatever is harmful or mischievous," but the investigation into plots to bomb targets in Britain suggests a group of medics may have ignored that vow.
Terror arrest in Australia
British newspapers reacted in shock on Tuesday as it emerged that the prime suspects behind the weekend's attempted terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow had been doctors and medical workers employed by the UK's National Health Service.
Victoria Beckham's shooting schedule for her NBC reality has been thrown into disarray now that husband David has been recalled to play for the English national soccer team.
The anguished parents of Madeleine McCann, the British girl missing for more than a week after appparently being snatched from a Portuguese vacation resort, have made a fresh appeal for her return.
SI.com: Mothers know bestupdated: Fri May 11 2007 16:41:00
This originally ran in the May 9, 2005 issue of Sports Illustrated.
The British media continued Monday to pick at the bones of Prince William's broken romance, eager for anything fit to print, everyone claiming to know "what really happened."
Thieves in Hungary have stolen some tapes of the BBC's new prime-time series "Robin Hood," stalling completion of some of the 13 episodes, the broadcaster said.
A British man is facing a murder charge after his son, 6, died and his daughter, 2, was injured when the trio plunged from a hotel balcony in Greece.
Airline officials have accused the British government and airport authorities of mishandling new security measures in the wake of an alleged terrorist plot.
Poignant tributes were being made in London as Britain marked one year since four suicide bombers killed 52 people in the London Underground system and on a bus.
Supermodel Kate Moss will not be charged over newspaper claims that she took cocaine in a London recording studio last year, British prosecutors have announced.
Supermodel Kate Moss has been questioned by police in Britain over allegations she took cocaine in a London recording studio last year.
A hearing for two British bureaucrats accused of providing a tabloid newspaper with a secret memo about a purported conversation between U.S. President George W. Bush and Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair should take place behind closed doors, prosecutors said in a request made Tuesday.
Marine experts who failed to rescue a stranded whale were waiting for test results that could help explain how the animal ended up in the shallow waters of London's Thames River.
showbuzzupdated: Mon Jan 16 2006 14:59:00
Musician Pete Doherty, the sometime boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss, has been arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs, days after pleading guilty to similar charges.
Two men will stand trial later this month in London facing charges of leaking a secret memo which, according to a British newspaper, indicates U.S. President George W. Bush considered bombing Al-Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar.
A rowdy air passenger was cast away on a remote Atlantic island after abusing crew and other travelers aboard a holiday flight from the UK to the Spanish Canary Islands.
Two men appeared in court Tuesday for the first time after being charged with leaking a top secret memo which, according to a British newspaper, showed U.S. President George W. Bush considered bombing Al-Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar.
Employees of the Arabic news network Al-Jazeera have been protesting over a recent report by a British tabloid that the U.S. allegedly planned to bomb the network's headquarters in Qatar -- a report vehemently denied by the White House.
The British government has warned news organizations against publishing details of a secret memo which one London tabloid newspaper said recounted discussions between Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush about bombing the headquarters of the Arabic news network Al-Jazeera.
The White House characterized as "outlandish" Tuesday a British newspaper report that President Bush once discussed bombing the headquarters of Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera with Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Prince Charles has launched legal action against a British newspaper group over the publication of details from one of his private journals, his office announced.
The identity of the so-called "Piano Man" is no longer a mystery after media reports named him as Andreas Grassl from the tiny community of Prosdorf in Bavaria, Germany.
The mysterious "Piano Man" at a British hospital who did not speak to doctors and nurses for four months has been discharged and is back in his home country of Germany.
Britain's press responded to Thursday's failed bombings on London with a mixture of relief, fresh defiance and concern that more attacks could be planned.
Britain's defense secretary has launched a security review of the military academy where Prince Harry is training after a newspaper said its reporter entered the grounds carrying a fake bomb.
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has won a court order to stop two men leaking details of her latest work after they were arrested in a dramatic operation to recover two copies of the book.
Five protesters burst onto the floor of Britain's House of Commons on Wednesday as lawmakers were preparing to vote on a ban on fox hunting.
A 32-year-old man who staged a protest on a Buckingham Palace balcony dressed as Batman has been released on police bail.
London's police chief has demanded an urgent inquiry after a fathers rights campaigner dressed as Batman evaded supposedly tight security to stage a protest on a Buckingham Palace balcony.
British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon has presented the top U.S. military commander behind the invasion of Iraq an honorary knighthood, sparking an outcry in Britain.
At least one British soldier has been arrested in a probe of faked photos showing alleged abuses of Iraqi prisoners by UK forces, the Ministry of Defence said.
British police say they are questioning a man who tricked his way into Queen Elizabeth II's main southern English country residence by pretending to be a police officer.
Four arrests have been made by military police investigating allegations that British troops abused Iraqi prisoners.
The Daily Mirror says its editor Piers Morgan has resigned over the publication of "fake" pictures of British soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees.
Piers Morgan, Editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper, which first published the images apparently showing the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British troops, issued a statement on Thursday. The following is the full text:
Dramatic pictures said to show British troops abusing Iraqi prisoners were not taken in Iraq, the UK government has said.
New claims that British troops abused prisoners of war in Iraq are being investigated by Britain's Royal Military Police.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has appointed a security director after being warned in a report she could be at threat from terrorists.
The fallout over accusations of Iraqi prisoners being abused by coalition soldiers continued after it was revealed six American soldiers had been formally reprimanded.
Doubts are growing over the authenticity of photographs that allegedly show British troops mistreating an Iraqi prisoner.
(CNN) -- Graphic pictures showing the apparent abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. and British soldiers in Iraq have angered Arabs across the world, as well as U.S. and British officials.
London's Daily Mirror newspaper has published photographs that purportedly show British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, including one picture of a soldier urinating on a hooded detainee.
Eleven sailors were permitted to leave a British nuclear submarine after expressing fears over its safety, the Ministry of Defense has confirmed.
Princess Diana was not pregnant when she died, a former royal coroner says, apparently ruling out one of the rumors which has swirled around her death in a car crash six years ago.
The British monarchy is embroiled in fresh controversy after a newspaper claimed Princess Diana feared Prince Charles wanted to kill her in the months before her death.
The first coroner's inquest in Britain into the death of Princess Diana has opened on the same day that a newspaper named her ex-husband in connection with an alleged plot to kill her.
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