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News Corp's hacking bill nears $200m

9 Feb 2012

Phone hacking at News International has cost Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation nearly $200m (£126m) to date, the company said last night, as it warned it could not predict the final bill.

News Corp reaches more phone hacking settlements

9 Feb 2012

LONDON (Reuters) - A further 15 politicians, sportsmen and celebrities reached settlements with the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Wednesday over a phone hacking scandal that has rocked his global media empire. The development increases the chances that the publisher may yet avoid further embarrassing details of its conduct from being publicly aired in court - although at ...

News Corp. Settles More Phone-Hacking Suits, Delays U.K. Trial

9 Feb 2012

News Corp.’s British newspaper unit settled at least 15 more lawsuits by victims of illegal voice- mail interceptions at its News of the World tabloid and delayed the first civil trial in the scandal by two weeks.