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Wendi Deng ( L) watches as her husband, News Corp Chief Executive and Chairman Rupert Murdoch, is questioned during a parliamentary committee hearing on phone hacking at Portcullis House in London July 19, 2011. Later, Murdoch was attacked by a protester on Tuesday while giving evidence to a British parliamentary committee at which he defended his son and his company over a scandal that has rocked the British establishment. REUTERS/Parbul TV via Reuters Tv (BRITAIN - Tags: CRIME LAW MEDIA BUSINESS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS (Â© Reuters Tv / Reuters)

Wendi Deng hijacks News Corp. coverage

British Prime Minister David Cameron, heading a two day visit to South Africa and Nigeria, attends an answer and question session at the Stock Exchange in Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday July 18, 2011. Britain's spreading phone hacking and police bribery scandal forced two of London's top police officers to resign in less than 24 hours and prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to call for an emergency session of parliament.(AP Photo/Christopher Furlong, pool) (AP)

Piers Morgan on CNN Tuesday night.

Photographers and cameramen surround the vehicle carrying Rupert Murdoch along Whitehall in London, Tuesday July 19, 2011, ahead of his and his son James' appearance before a House of Commons committee to face their intensely-awaited grilling on the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. (AP Photo/Chris Ison-pa) UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE: - PHOTOGRAPH CAN NOT BE STORED OR USED FOR MORE THAN 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION (AP)

Jill Lawless, Meera Selva

Rupert Murdoch

Jill Lawless, Cassandra Vinograd

Chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch, right, and his son James Murdoch, chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia arrive at his residence in central London, Sunday, July 10, 2011. News of the World cease publication with Sunday issue the last. News of the World is accused of hacking into the mobile phones of crime victims, celebrities and politicians. (AP Photo/Sang Tan) (AP)

The extent of News Corp.'s crimes

British Prime Minister David Cameron (AP/Sang Tan)

Jill Lawless, Meera Selva

James and Rupert Murdoch

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, which publishes the News of the World tabloid, arrives at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, England. Brooks resigned as Chief executive of News International Friday July 15, 2011 according to News International journalists. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File) (AP)

Robert Barr, Raphael Satter

Murdoch now faces FBI probe, Parliament hearing

News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch arrives at his residence in central London, Wednesday, July 13, 2011. News Corporation announced Wednesday it has dropped its bid to takeover British Sky Broadcasting (BskyB), after the British tabloid newspaper News of the World is accused of hacking into the mobile phones of various crime victims, celebrities and politicians.(AP Photo/Sang Tan) (AP)

Jill Lawless, Robert Barr

Rupert Murdoch leaves his home in Mayfair, London, as British Prime Minister David Cameron joined demands for the media mogul to drop his BSkyB takeover bid in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal Wednesday July 13, 2011. Britain's House of Commons is poised to demand that Rupert Murdoch give up on his ambition of taking over a lucrative broadcaster while a phone hacking scandal rages around his British newspaper holdings. Cameron has put his party's weight behind an opposition motion up for a vote Wednesday which declares that bidding for full control of British Sky Broadcasting would not be in the national interest. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE (AP)

Associated Press

(AP)

Rupert Murdoch

A screen grab from NMA's phone-hacking video.

Taiwan animators tackle News of the World scandal

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher

FILE - This is a Wednesday, July 6, 2011 file photo of a News of the World sign is seen by an entrance at premises of News International in London. James Murdoch News Corporation executive says the News of the World will publish its last issue on Sunday. The focus of the phone hacking scandal shifted Thursday to serious allegations of police corruption as Scotland Yard called for an independent review of reported payoffs by journalists to police. The review announced Thursday by the Independent Press Complaints Commission reflects the seriousness of the corruption charges, which are apparently based on information provided by the embattled News of the World tabloid to police in recent days. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) (AP)

Associated Press

Poor Baroness Thatcher!

UK gets giant Reagan statue and austerity measures

Toby Young, in the Telegraph, calls out Johann Hari of the Independent

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - This photo taken Wednesday, June 8, 2011 shows Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, left, and another unidentified man lying dead in Mogadishu, Somalia. A Somali official says the al-Qaida operative behind the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania has been killed. The spokesman for Somalia's minister of information, Abdifatah Abdinur, said Saturday June 11, 2011 that officials have concluded that a man security forces killed late Tuesday was Fazul Abdullah Mohammed. Fazul had a $5 million bounty on his head for allegedly planning the 1998 embassy bombings. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) (AP)

A drunk man is caught flipping over a banister closed-circuit television in London.

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