Tag: british newspapers

We knew it was only a matter of time: Rebekah Brooks, the loyal lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch, resigned Friday as chief executive of his embattled British newspapers, becoming the biggest casualty so far in the phone hacking scandal at a Sunday tabloid. Murdoch had vigorously defended Brooks in the face of demands from politicians that […]

LONDON (Reuters) – The talk of British troops pulling out of Iraq rumbles on. Britain plans to pull out nearly all its soldiers from Iraq by the summer of 2008, with the first withdrawals within weeks, a top military commander said in an interview published on Tuesday. Lieutenant General Nick Houghton, Britain’s most senior officer […]