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Friday 15 July 2011

No more News of the World

Celebrities routinely complain about Britain's deeply intrusive paparazzi. But a scandal over reporters hacking phones of bereaved people has caused uproar in the British Parliament, leading to the closure of The News of the World

The weekly tabloid newspaper at the center of a British phone hacking scandal is to be closed after a final, ad-free edition this weekend. The abrupt announcement from a top official at News Corp., James Murdoch, underscored the devastating effect of allegations that the paper's journalists invaded the voicemail accounts not only of a 13-year-old murder victim but also relatives of fallen soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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