Media baron Rupert Murdoch's top executive Rebekah Brooks and Premier David Cameron's former aide Andy Coulson, were on Tuesday charged along with six others with criminal conspiracy to hack into phon

News International could be facing more than 500 civil claims for damages from alleged victims of the News of the World phone hacking incident, it has emerged.

At a case management conference at the

The multiple investigations into the phone-hacking scandal on Tuesday moved a notch higher with the prosecutors bringing three charges of perjury against media baron Rupert Murdoch's former confidante

Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the News of the World (Now), and her husband Charlie were on Tuesday formally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over the phone-hacking inquiry,

A British parliamentary report said on Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch had showed 'wilful blindness' over phone hacking at his News of the World tabloid and was not fit to run a major company.

"We conclu

Rupert Murdoch said on Thursday there was a 'cover-up' over phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid but that it was kept hidden from him and senior executives in his media empire.

Murdoch also

Former News International executive chairman James Murdoch began giving testimony under oath on Tuesday at the British inquiry into press standards set up after the tabloid phone-hacking row.

In the

British police on Saturday arrested five employees of Rupert Murdoch's tabloid The Sun, a police officer, a member of the armed forces and a defence ministry employee in a bribery probe.

The arrests

James Murdoch, at the centre of the phone hacking scandal in his family's British newspaper business, has resigned from the board of GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceuticals giant said on Friday.

Rupert

James Murdoch returns to Britain's parliament on Thursday for a second grilling over the phone hacking scandal in a showdown that could deepen the crisis in his father Rupert Murdoch's media empire.