John F Burns New York Times

• British hacking inquiry to recall James Murdoch

  A parliamentary panel investigating the phone hacking scandal within the British outpost of Rupert Murdoch's media empire said on Tuesday that it would recall his son, James Murdoch, to answer more questions about his knowledge of the affair.

• 2 top deputies resign as crisis isolates Murdoch

  The crisis rattling Rupert Murdoch's global media empire claimed the two highest-level executives yet on Friday after days of mounting pressure from politicians and investors on two continents.

• Cameron orders two inquiries into hacking scandal as former aide is arrested

  The British police on Friday arrested a former editor of The News of the World who is also a former senior aide to Prime Minister David Cameron, and rearrested the newspaper's former royal editor. The arrests deepened the crisis swirling around Rupert Murdoch's media empire in Britain over allegations of phone hacking and corruption.Struggling to c...

• A royal wedding, a tarnished crown

  Outwardly, at least, this week's royal pageant will bear a strong resemblance to the last of the great royal weddings, when Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. Now, as then, a tall, slim young man in a crisply tailored military uniform will wed a bride so striking she has launched 10,000 magazine covers, offering to Britain and the w...

• Royal wedding: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown not invited

  Just as all appeared to be going smoothly for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, recriminations set in on Monday over who has made the list of 1,900 wedding guests - and perhaps more significant, those who have not.The have-nots include Britain's last two prime ministers, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, neither of whom found much favor ...

• In this fairytale, two queens in waiting

  When 1,900 invited guests take their coveted places in Westminster Abbey next week for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, one of the most uneasy seats in the 13th -century Gothic church may be the one occupied by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the longtime lover of Prince Charles, and since her marriage to the heir to the throne in 20...

• WikiLeaks founder back in court to challenge extradition

  Facing his most crucial legal battle so far, Julian Assange, the founder of the antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks, appeared on Monday at a hearing to decide whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face accusations of sexual abuse. The two-day hearing, which began with detailed procedural arguments at Woolwich Crown Court, was the culmination of...

• Blair testifies before British inquiry into Iraq War

  Tony Blair, the former prime minister, appeared on Friday before a British inquiry into the origins and conduct of the Iraq war to fill in gaps from earlier testimony about his unpublicized discussions with President George W. Bush as the conflict loomed. It was his second appearance in a year, reflecting the inquiry's desire to "clarify what happe...

• Charles and Camilla attacked in their Rolls

  Britain's coalition government survived the most serious challenge yet to its austerity plans on Thursday when Parliament narrowly approved a sharp increase in college fees. But violent student protests in central London, including an attack on a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, to the theater, provided a stark measure of growing ...

• Hackers attack those seen as WikiLeaks enemies

  In a campaign that had some declaring the start of a "cyberwar," hundreds of Internet activists mounted retaliatory attacks on Wednesday on the Web sites of multinational companies and other organizations they deemed hostile to the WikiLeaks antisecrecy organization and its jailed founder, Julian Assange. Within 12 hours of a British judge's decisi...