Britain’s Conservative-led government denied on Saturday that it was too close to Rupert Murdoch’s scandal-hit media empire.
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/ 23 November 2010
What’s a tweet, between friends? The law says sometimes it’s a threat, as various members of the Twitter community painfully found out.
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/ 17 September 2008
A sale of pickled sharks, butterfly paintings and other pieces by provocative British artist Damien Hirst has raised £111-million in London.
It’s <i>Hamlet</i>, but not as we know it.
Alicia Keys and Jack White have recorded the theme song for the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, producers said this week.
Salman Rushdie is probably the Booker Prize’s best-known winner. Now he is officially the best.
A triumphant Heather Mills said on Monday she had secured the future for herself and her daughter with a court awarding her a £24,3-million (about R398,5-million) settlement in her divorce from former Beatle Paul McCartney. ”I’m so, so happy with this,” Mills said at an impromptu news conference.
A coast-guard helicopter and navy divers scoured the frigid North Sea on Friday for signs of five crewmen, including a 15-year-old boy, missing after their Norwegian oil-rig support vessel capsized off northern Scotland. Three people were confirmed dead after Thursday’s accident, the coast guard said.
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/ 22 January 2007
Salvage teams on Sunday battled to secure a damaged container ship grounded off the English coast, as 200 tonnes of oil and other hazardous materials threatened the nearby coastline. The stricken MSC Napoli was deliberately run aground after it was damaged during a storm on Thursday.
Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate on Wednesday accused the BBC of using taxpayers’ money to build a ”digital empire” that would compete with commercial rivals. The BBC has announced plans to relaunch its website to incorporate more user-generated content such as blogs and video.