Cherie Blair News
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Zadie Smith and Barbara Kingsolver, both past winners, join Hilary Mantel as finalists in the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
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News Corp. settled more than 100 lawsuits over phone hacking by journalists at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid in Britain as it seeks to avoid a civil trial, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair’s wife Cherie sued News Corp. and a former private investigator for its now-defunct News of the World tabloid for hacking into her phone.
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News Corp.’s U.K. publishing unit faces at least six new lawsuits by victims of tabloid phone hacking even after a court-issued deadline passed for filing such cases, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the innovation of U.S. businesses such as Google Inc. , as she called on technology companies to use their resources to help meet the country’s foreign policy goals.
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Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s head of communications for most of his time as prime minister, said he believed British newspapers other than those owned by News Corp. had broken the law to get stories.
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Mattel Inc. has won dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit by MGA Entertainment Inc., the toymaker that sought $1 billion in damages alleging Mattel violated antitrust laws in a dispute over Bratz dolls.
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Hard rock takes over London’s Roundhouse tomorrow night, with a show full of punks, aggressive guitarists dressed in black leather and posters of rats.
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Maryam’s husband was so outraged when he discovered the device she had smuggled into their Kabul home that he beat her with his fists and a whip. The contraband was a cell phone.
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Britain’s Olympic gold medalists dominated a New Year’s honors list that celebrated a year of sporting triumph, with Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins receiving a knighthood.
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