This story of hidden phones and computers belongs in a spy novel, not a phone-hacking trial.

The first trial from the phone-hacking scandal that sank Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World has opened.

The Crown Prosecution Service’s decision to charge former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks came as the British Cabinet met on Tuesday

Rebekah Brooks has been charged with perverting the course of justice over a phone hacking scandal at one of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers.

Questioning of former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has put to bed the company’s ‘rogue reporter’ defence once and for all.

British police investigating tabloid phone hacking on Friday arrested a 47-year-old woman on suspicion of trying to pervert the course of justice.

News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch and his son James face questions from Parliament on Tuesday in the phone-hacking scandal.

Police say Sean Hoare, the whistleblower reporter who alleged widespread hacking at the <em>News of the World</em>, has been found dead.

"It was the kind of place you get out of and you never want to go back again," said a former reporter of the <em>News of the World</em>.

A phone-hacking scandal centred on Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp cost Britain’s top policeman his job.

Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the <i>News of the World</i> and a favoured lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch, was arrested on Sunday.

Britain has been transfixed by the phone hacking scandal that has shaken its media world. But will it really change the nation’s press?

Rebekah Brooks, CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper wing, has said she felt a "deep sense of responsibility for the people we have hurt".

Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch’s most senior newspaper executive in Britain and close confidante, quit News Corp on Friday.