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• Developments in British phone-hacking scandal

  full.July 6: Cameron demands inquiries after the Guardian report.July 7: News International shuts down the best-selling News of the World tabloid.July 8: Coulson and two other men are arrested in the widening police inquiry.July 10: News of the World publishes   Read more »

• Decision on charges for ex-News editor

  and obstruction of justice. The phone hacking scandal exploded in July after revelations that the now-defunct News of the World had hacked murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone after she disappeared in 2002. Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old newspaper   Read more »

• Lawyer: UK police suspected phone hacking in 2002

  one of the scandal's darkest episodes.The Guardian, a rival U.K. newspaper that broke the story in July, claimed the News of the World had deleted messages from Milly's phone -- reporting that has been challenged by News Corp. and the police.Garnham said an   Read more »

• James Murdoch defends record at inquiry

  about the wrongdoing once he took over at News International in December 2007. The uproar over illegal behavior at the News of the World has scuttled Murdoch's multibillion-dollar bid for full control of satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group   Read more »

• 'Frontline' takes on 'Murdoch's Scandal'

  shocked to find that gambling is going on here. But when you consider, as "Frontline" does, that phone hacking helped the News of the World -- and by association, Murdoch's News Corp. -- establish that influence, then that is a whole other level of corporate   Read more »

Around the web

• News Corp. to Face 500 Phone-Hacking Claims

  so far. So far, claimants have filed roughly 110 lawsuits against the company related to illicit reporting tactics by the News of the World. The media company has settled more than half of those, including high-profile cases brought by singer Charlotte Church, 5/31/12 from Wall Street Journal Read more »

• Andy Coulson not the last person to face charges over Tommy Sheridan perjury trial, police confirm

  Strathclyde cops are preparing to press charges against more individuals after releasing the former News of the World editor from custody in Glasgow late on Tuesday evening. ... Read the full story at Daily Record 4:29 AM from Edinburgh News Read more »

• Ministers backed Murdoch takeover - inquiry

  Corporation's wishes." The excesses of the press were exposed last summer when it was revealed that journalists at the News of the World tabloid had repeatedly broken the law by hacking people's phones to secure sensational stories. The resulting scandal forced 5/31/12 from Stuff.co.nz Read more »

• Hunt: News of the World closure forced me to reevaluate BSkyB bid

  Secretary Jeremy Hunt today told the Leveson Inquiry that the closure of the News of the World in the midst of the phone-hacking scandal had made him reevaluate parent company News Corp’s bid for BSkyB. Mr Hunt admitted that he had previously been in favour 5/31/12 from Index on Censorship Read more »

• Andy Coulson says he will 'vigorously contest' perjury charges

  in Glasgow in December 2010 of lying on oath when he won a £200,000 libel victory over Coulson's former newspaper the News of the World. Coulson, who was whisked out of Govan police station in the back of a police van last night to avoid television cameras,   from The Observer Read more »