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James Murdoch 'furious' over plans to block BSkyB takeover bid, Leveson inquiry told
5:55 AM | The Conservative minister overseeing the Murdoch bid to take over satellite broadcaster BSkyB warned the Prime Minister that James Murdoch was furious over the government's handling of it and "if we block it, our media sector will suffer for years", the Leveson inquiry heard last night.
3:00 AM | LONDON: A lobbyist for News Corp exchanged 191 phone calls, 158 emails and 800 texts with the office of the British Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, during the company's bid for the satellite broadcaster BSkyB, the Leveson inquiry heard last night.
3:00 AM | British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to give his MPs a free vote on whether gay couples should be allowed to marry, after a major rebellion by his own ministers.
24 May 12 | The Indonesian corrections department says Schapelle Corby would not even be eligible to apply for parole until September, which scuttles the chances that she will be home in August.
24 May 12 | The United Nations Security Council is “redundant as a guardian of global peace”, and its failure to intervene in global conflicts has allowed human rights violations to flourish, a scathing report from Amnesty International has alleged.
24 May 12 | In busy Cairo cafes, in homes, workplaces and on baking hot streets across the country, Egyptians are openly debating who should be their next president.
24 May 12 | Three former News International executives are to face the British Parliament's watchdog over claims they lied when giving phone-hacking evidence.
Backlash in Indonesia against Corby clemency
23 May 12 | A backlash has begun in Indonesia against the granting of clemency to Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.
23 May 12 | Three former executives of Rupert Murdoch's scandal-ridden British arm, News International, are to face Parliament's watchdog over claims they lied when giving evidence over phone-hacking.
Murdoch asked Blair to call me off, says MP
23 May 12 | LONDON: The Labour MP Tom Watson last night told the Leveson Inquiry he had heard Rupert Murdoch had asked Tony Blair to ''call him [Watson] off'' the phone-hacking inquiry.
23 May 12 | China's Maoists rally behind Bo Xilai, accusing authorities of fabricating a case against him and exposing China to the risk of disintegration.
23 May 12 | Tom Watson tells Leveson inquiry he was told that Rupert Murdoch had asked Tony Blair to 'call him [Watson] off' the phone hacking inquiry.
23 May 12 | Australia's $300 million commitment to Afghanistan's defence forces is beginning to look spectacularly generous, as far larger key NATO allies leave the Chicago summit having made smaller pledges, or none at all.
23 May 12 | THE Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, who was very close with his mother, once remarked that "people who know that they are preferred or favoured by their mother give evidence in their lives of a peculiar self-reliance and an unshakeable optimism which often seem like heroic attributes and bring actual success to their possessors".
'Messy process': NATO backs Afghanistan withdrawal
22 May 12 | NATO and its partner nations have completed their plans to withdraw from Afghanistan, with President Barack Obama, and the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard both restating their belief that the Afghan army maintain security.
22 May 12 | LONDON: The British politician Tessa Jowell sought an assurance from Tony Blair he had made no deal with Rupert Murdoch on media regulation when she was appointed culture secretary, the Leveson inquiry has heard.
22 May 12 | Indonesian prosecutors have demanded a life sentence for an alleged terrorist.
22 May 12 | They live in stilted shacks on a mudflat above piles of oyster shells, broken glass and rubbish, their nomadic days on the seas of south-east Asia gone forever.
22 May 12 | Lindsay Murdoch
Gillard signs off on millions of dollars of aid for Afghanistan
21 May 12 | The Prime Minister Julia Gillard has committed to increasing Australia’s aid to Afghanistan by $85 million a year to $250 million by 2015 in an agreement signed with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai during a side meeting at the NATO summit.
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