Tony Blair said Monday that he failed to challenge British tabloids over misconduct because he could not afford to lose their support. The former prime minister was questioned at the Leveson inquiry over his “cosy” relationship with Rupert Murdoch.
Former News International chief executive and editor of the now-defunct "News of the World" tabloid Rebekah Brooks, her husband and four others have been charged with perverting the course of justice over a phone-hacking scandal.
Rebekah Brooks (pictured), who quit as News International editor and executive over Britain's phone-hacking scandal, told an ethics inquiry on Friday about her links to powerful and influential figures, including Prime Minister David Cameron.
Thousands of police officers joined a demonstration by public sector workers in the British capital on Thursday to protest against ongoing government cuts. Around 20,000 police took to the streets, but authorities dismissed the protest as futile.
London’s conservative Mayor Boris Johnson won a second term on Friday, giving Britain’s Conservative Party a needed lift amid a barrage of defeats in local elections for it and its junior coalition partner, the Liberal Democrats.
Partial results in the UK local elections Thursday saw Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives receive a bruising by a discontented electorate. The sole bright spot is a likely win for Conservative London mayor, Boris Johnson (photo).
A British court published a report Tuesday saying media tycoon Rupert Murdoch was "not a fit person" to run his company and guilty of "willful blindness" in a phone-hacking scandal that brought down his News of the World tabloid.
Olympics security organisers defended plans to place missile batteries atop London rooftops Monday following public outcry and concerns from tower block residents. The missiles would be used to foil a large-scale terrorist attack, the army said.
The body of a British Red Cross worker abducted nearly four months ago in Pakistan was found beheaded and dumped on a roadside in the southwestern city of Quetta on Sunday, with a note saying he was killed after his captors' demands were not met.
In a second day of testimony in Britain's High Court on Thursday, media mogul Rupert Murdoch blamed the phone hacking scandal that brought down News of the World on renegade journalists who hid their activity from the tabloid's management.
