Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corp., which represents the second largest media conglomerate in the world behind the Walt Disney Company, is taking a severe beating as Murdoch himself is having to address various criminal allegations, including that hisNews of the Worldtabloid illegally hacked... Read more...
A U.S senator has called for an investigation into media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., a sign that the phone hacking scandal that has rocked U.K. newspapers could spread to the United States. The phone hacking revelations at the UK’s News of the World tabloid raises “serious questions... Read more...
The UK performs poorly in an international league table showing how many disadvantaged pupils succeed "against the odds" at school. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has studied how pupils from poor backgrounds can succeed academically. It says that "self-confide... Read more...
According to a new study published in Neuropsychopharmacology, researchers, led by Gunther Meinlschmidt, PhD, may have found a connection between the brain chemical oxytocin and postpartum depression. // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ var google_adnum = 0; google_ad_client = "pub-053648352... Read more...
Twitter is at the center of a row over super-injunctions — gagging orders which prevent a person from speaking about something — because users are tweeting information considered confidential by British courts. A British football player (that’s “soccer player” for the readers ac... Read more...
John Catt, aged 86, has had his presence at peaceful protests systematically logged by secretive police unit over four years An 86-year-old man has been granted permission to launch a lawsuit against police chiefs who have classified him as a "domestic extremist" and kept a detailed record of his p... Read more...
Judges will no longer have to declare whether they are freemasons when they take office, Jack Straw, UK Justice Secretary, said yesterday. Jack Straw said it would be 'disproportionate' to continue to force judges to declare if they are freemasons. He explains his decision today in a written mini... Read more...
But Google remains dominant with nine tenths of global search traffic Microsoft's Bing has overtaken Yahoo as the second most popular search engine on the web, according to new figures from research firm StatCounter. Bing handled 4.37 per cent of the world's search queries last month... Read more...
YouTube wants to start a subscription service of streaming movies a la Netflix and Amazon's new streaming service for Prime customers, the Post reports. They're planning to launch it first in the UK and Europe where there's less competition and they can test it, before rolling it out inte... Read more...