Millions of South African schoolchildren have sung happy birthday to Nelson Mandela as he celebrated his 93rd birthday, while politicians and ordinary citizens did charity work to support his call to do good.. REUTERS/Ho New
Scarlet-clad emissaries began paddling southern England’s sprawling River Thames this week in search of swans for the ancient tradition of “swan upping”.. REUTERS/Stephen Hird
A hacking group has launched an attack on the website of Rupert Murdoch’s Sun tabloid, as the Australian-born media boss prepares to front a British parliamentary inquiry.. thesun.co.uk
In another tumultuous day for Rupert Murdoch, a 2nd senior police officer has resigned and phone hacking whistleblower Sean Hoare was found dead at his home north of London.. REUTERS/Paul Hackett
British prime minister David Cameron has expressed regret over his handling of the phone hacking crisis, saying in hindsight he would not have hired one of the alleged perpetrators as his media adviser.. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
As Rupert Murdoch issued an apology to victims of the hacking scandal, former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks was arrested, and Britain’s most senior police officer resigned.. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
Harry Potter has waved his magic wand and broken all box office records worldwide during the opening weekend of The Deathly Hallows – Part 2.. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Spanish actor Javier Bardem and film-makers are urging Internet users to support creative industries struggling to survive in an age of digital piracy by shunning illegal downloading of free films and music.. Image Net
Japan’s second-biggest retailer said on Sunday it had sold beef from cattle that ate nuclear-contaminated feed, the latest in a series of health scares from radiation leaking from a quake-crippled nuclear power plant.. REUTERS/KYODO Kyodo)
The police are set to hand over information to Hugh Grant which could show phone messages between him and Jemima Khan were intercepted by a private investigator working for a newspaper.. ABC/Getty/Peter Macdiarmid
A Gustav Klimt landscape stolen by the Nazis and recently restituted to the heirs of its Austrian owner is expected to sell for more than US$25 million at auction this Autumn.
The Royal family and their lawyers are the latest to be drawn into the phone-hacking scandal engulfing News Corporation.. Pascal Le Segretain: Getty Images
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has described his appearance before a British parliamentary hearing on phone-hacking as “the most humble day of my life”.. REUTERS/Reuters TV
Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki set fire to five tonnes of contraband ivory on Wednesday, a symbol of his and Africa’s renewed commitment to fight poaching.. REUTERS/Noor Khamis
Models appearing in shorts and bikinis in the window of a department store in central Milan caused a stir over the weekend, with Italy’s trade unions denouncing the merchandisation of the human body.
US president Barack Obama has defied warnings from China and welcomed to the White House the Dalai Lama, who said that the US leader shared his concerns about human rights in Tibet.. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
A spectacular new image of a cosmic superbubble in a nearby galaxy is giving scientists a glimpse of the birth and death of young stars and solar systems.. European Southern Observatory
As the UN declares a state of famine in the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia, Oxfam has launched its biggest ever appeal to raise $100 million for the Horn of Africa.. Alun McDonald/Oxfam
Rupert Murdoch’s third wife, Wendi Deng, became an unlikely hero, defending her octogenarian husband during his evidence to a British parliamentary inquiry.. ABC
As thousands of requests pour in for the first day of same-sex marriages in New York City, the mayor’s office says it will establish a lottery to select 764 couples to wed.. ABC/Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)
