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ILE - In this April 13, 2010 file photo, Andy Coulson, formerly editor of the tabloid News of the World, and later David Cameron's director of communications, speaks on a mobile phone in London. London police on Friday, July 8, 2011, arrested Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor who also served as the prime minister's former communications chief, in relation to Britain's tabloid phone-hacking scandal. London police said a 43-year-old man was arrested Friday morning over allegations of phone hacking and police bribery and was in custody at a London police station. They did not name him but offered the information when asked about Coulson. (AP Photo/Oli Scarff, Pool, file)

PM's ex-aide arrested in UK hacking scandal

Jim Lawless, Robert Barr The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, July 8, 2011 - 10:33am

LONDON -- Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications chief and an ex-royal reporter were arrested Friday in a phone hacking and police corruption scandal that has already toppled a major tabloid and rattled the cozy relationship between British politicians and the powerful Murdoch media empire.

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FILE -- Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, arrives at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester, England, in this Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009 file photo. Britain's long-running phone hacking scandal took a a sickening twist, Tuesday July 5, 2011,with claims that a tabloid newspaper hacked into the phone mail of an abducted teenage girl and may have hampered the police investigation into her disappearance. Brooks, chief executive of News International, which publishes the News of the World tabloid, said in an email to her staff that the "strongest possible" actions would be taken if the charges were found to be true. Brooks said in the email that she had no knowledge of the alleged hacking and said she would not resign. (AP Photo/Jon Super, file)

UK phone hacking targets more slain schoolgirls

Gregory Katz, Robert Barr The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, July 6, 2011 - 9:30am

LONDON -- Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal dominated the airways Wednesday as it swelled to allegedly involve more missing schoolgirls and the families of London terror victims. Lawmakers held an emergency debate, companies hastily pulled their ads and the prime minister demanded two new inquiries.

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(Associated Press file photo) The July 4 magazine cover released by Newsweek magazine shows a computer-generated image of Princess Di with Kate Middleton. Princess Di would have been 50 today, which is perhaps the only certainty about the course of a life cut short in a 1997 car crash in Paris, with a new boyfriend, two months past her 36th birthday.

Princess Di would have been 50 today

Jane Wardell and Robert Barr, Robert Barr The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 11:31pm

LONDON -- Princess Diana would have been 50 years old today, perhaps the only certainty about what might have been in a life cut short by a 1997 car crash in Paris, with a new boyfriend, two months past her 36th birthday.

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This is a Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005 file photo of composer John Barry as he holds his Academy Fellowship award at the British Academy Film Awards in London's Leicester Square. British film composer John Barry, who won five Oscars and is best known for creating music for the James Bond movies, has died at age 77. Barry's family said Monday Jan. 31. 2011 that he had died in New York on Sunday.

5-time Oscar-winner composer John Barry dies at 77

Robert Barr, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 31, 2011 - 3:12pm

LONDON -- Five-time Oscar-winning composer John Barry, who wrote music for a dozen James Bond films, including "You Only Live Twice" and "Goldfinger" but couldn't persuade a jury that he composed the suave spy's theme music, has died. He was 77.

Barry died in New York, where he had lived for some time, on Sunday, his family said. The family did not release the cause of death.

Though his work on the Bond films is among his most famous, the English-born composer wrote a long list of scores, including for "Midnight Cowboy," "Dances with Wolves" and "Body Heat." He was proud of writing both for big action blockbusters and smaller films.

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BP's Hayward to leave as CEO; Russia job in works

Harry R. Weber, Robert Barr, The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, July 26, 2010 - 2:20pm

NEW ORLEANS -- Tony Hayward, who became the face of BP's flailing efforts to contain the massive Gulf oil spill, will step down as chief executive in October and be offered a job with the company's joint venture in Russia, a person familiar with the matter said Monday.