London, May 9 (ANI): Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is being pressed once again by dissident shareholders to step down as chairman of News Corporation.

Sydney, Apr. 3 (ANI): Australia's federal opposition has joined media mogul Rupert Murdoch in labelling Julia Gillard government's language on foreign workers as 'racist'.

Sydney, Apr. 2 (ANI): News Corporation chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has labelled Australian Labor Party's language on foreign workers 'disgraceful and racist'.

London, Mar 19 (ANI): Former world champion boxer Chris Eubank has challenged media tycoon Rupert Murdoch to a gargantuan battle on Monday over phone-hacking after rejecting a 21,000 pound offer of compensation, branding it as derisory.

London, Mar 16 (ANI): British police is examining an estimated 600 fresh claims of phone-hacking incidents at media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's now defunct tabloid News of the World.

London, Feb. 12 (ANI): Home Secretary Theresa May has been voted the most powerful woman in Britain after the Queen.

London, Feb. 11 (ANI): News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch has said days of Page 3 models on the Sun newspaper were 'last century.

London, Feb 7 (ANI): Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has waded into the row over cyber-attacks from China, by tweeting that hackers are still targeting the American newspaper.

London, Jan 29 (ANI): Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has apologized for a "grotesque" cartoon in his London-based Sunday Times newspaper that depicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu building a brick wall containing the blood and limbs of Palestinians.

London, Dec 22 (ANI): Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's publishing operations would have lost 2.08 billion dollars as a standalone company last year, News Corporation has said.

London, Dec 22 (ANI): Actor Hugh Grant has received 'substantial damages' from Rupert Murdoch's media firm News International after settling his claim for phone hacking by the now defunct British tabloid News of the World.

London, Dec 13 (ANI): Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the now-defunct British tabloid News of the World British, was given 11million pounds pay-off when she resigned at the height of the phone-hacking scandal, it has emerged.

Washington, Dec 6 (ANI): Mother of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, has died at the age of 103.

Sydney, Dec 5 (ANI): Former CIA chief General David Petraeus was urged to run for the US presidency by one of Rupert Murdoch's American lieutenants, it has emerged.

London, Dec 4 (ANI): Rupert Murdoch's media firm News Corp has announced it will shut down The Daily, its iPad-only newspaper, after the firm failed to cover its costs.

London, Dec 3 (ANI): News Corporation, the media behemoth controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has accelerated its plans to split into two, and the firm's most senior executive in Britain is set to quit, says a report.

Washington, Dec. 2 (ANI): Robert Thomson, the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and editor in chief of Dow Jones, is expected to be named CEO of News Corp's new publishing company.

London, Nov 30 (ANI): British Prime Minister David Cameron and other senior politicians have developed "too close a relationship with the press", which has led to justifiable public concern over "the way things have been done," a report has said.

London, Nov 20 (ANI): Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has defended the publication of pictures of Saddam Hussein in his underpants in 2005, in the wake of suggestions that the media could face investigation in the US over payments made to obtain them.

Washington, Nov 19 (ANI): Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has apologized for an offensive tweet in which he had criticized the "Jewish-owned press" for providing "anti-Israel" coverage.

Washington, Nov 3 (ANI): Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is apparently unhappy with the way New Jersey governor Chris Christie has embraced President Barack Obama in the past few days over dealing with hurricane relief efforts.

London, Nov. 3 (ANI): Media mogul James Murdoch has reportedly flown to Abu Dhabi for holding top-secret talks that could spark a Formula One revolution.

London, Nov 2 (ANI): Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's son James has been reelected on the BSkyB board despite facing criticism from shareholders after the UK Government-approved regulatory and competition authority Ofcom savaged his 'character and conduct.'

Sydney, Nov 1 (ANI): Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's son James Murdoch is likely to face the shareholders ire at BskyB's annual meeting after a British telecoms watchdog called his 'competence' and 'attitude' into question.

London, Oct 23 (ANI): Former media magnate Conrad Black has launched a withering attack on Rupert Murdoch, calling the News Corporation boss a 'psychopath'.