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...

• WikiLeaks' Julian Assange denied bail, remanded to custody in UK

  After months of posting troves of classified American documents on the Internet, Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks Web site, surrendered to British authorities and was jailed on Tuesday after a judge reviewing a Swedish extradition request found him to be a flight risk and denied him bail. (Read: WikiLeaks founder Assange arrested) For Mr. ...

• Swedish court confirms arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

  Sweden's highest court refused on Thursday to grant permission for Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing organization, to appeal a court order seeking his arrest to face questioning over alleged sex crimes, news reports said.The ruling in Stockholm came a day after Interpol, the global police body, said it had been circulatin...

• Demonstrators in Ireland protest austerity plan

  After a week that brought Ireland  a pledge of a $114 billion international rescue package and the toughest austerity program of any country in Europe, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to Dublin's streets on Saturday to protest wide cuts in the country's welfare programs and in public-sector jobs.The protests centered on a milelong marc...

• Swedish Court to seek arrest of WikiLeaks founder

  A Swedish prosecutor said on Thursday that she would seek a court order for the arrest of Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blower's Web site, for questioning on charges of rape and other offenses. Mr. Assange's lawyer in Britain, Mark Stephens, said the allegations were "false and without basis." In recent weeks, Mr. Assange has mad...

• Facing austerity, Britain unveils welfare cuts

  A day after central London was shaken by violent protests against government-decreed increases in college tuition, Prime Minister David Cameron's administration braved a potential for further popular unrest on Thursday when it unveiled details of the biggest shake-up in Britain's sprawling welfare system since the years immediately after World War ...