The US Labor Department reported on Friday a surprisingly accelerated growth in the number of jobs available in the country in the month of July, offering a glimmer of hope towards the outlook of the country’s economy. According to the report released by the Labor Department, nonfarm payrolls increased up to 117,000 in the [...]
After weeks of unending pressure from British investigators and politicians, Rebekah Brooks finally resigned on Friday as chief executive of News International, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corp. Replacing her will be Tom Mockridge, a veteran at News Corp. who had spent the past eight years running News Corp.’s Sky [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s hopes to build his media empire further hit a setback as UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron launched a widespread investigation into the British Press, forcing him to withdraw his bid to buy out British satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB. The decision came just hours before lawmakers, led by Opposition leader Ed Miliband of [...]
British government lawyers announced on Monday that they are currently drawing up plans to stop the Murdoch-BSkyB deal. Government sources have declined to provide much detail other than they “are working on a plan to suspend the deal while the police investigation is taking place. This decision could spare UK’s Prime Minister David [...]
Pressure continues to mount on UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday to strengthen efforts to stop publishing tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s bid to buy out pay-TV operator BSkyB until investigations on News of the World’s phone-hacking scandal have been completed. In an interview with reporters, Opposition leader Ed Miliband threatened to force the issue [...]
46 South Korean football players were indicted on Thursday on charges of fixing football matches in the professional league. The indictment is part of an ongoing investigation being carried out against match fixing after 11 football players were found to have been involved in a similar scandal early in 2011. Ten of the players [...]
London, United Kingdom – Despite the threat of rain, hundreds of fans from all parts of the world have converged into London’s Trafalgar Square for the premiere of the last of the Harry Potter films scheduled on Thursday, July 14, 2011. The premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” will be [...]