Murdoch due in Britain to confront phone-hack crisis

Rupert Murdoch headed to London to take charge of dealing with a phone-hacking scandal at News of the World, as journalists on Saturday prepared the paper's final edition.The News Corp. chief was expected to arrive in Britain on Sunday, a company source said, as the sensationalist tabloid that has been in circulation for 168 years hits news stands for the last time.Murdoch has been keen to limit the fallout from the crisis which has cast a shadow over his bid to take full control of satellite broadcaster BSkyB, on which the government is due to decide soon.

Rupert Murdoch was heading to London on Saturday to take charge of dealing with the phone-hacking scandal at Britain's News of the World tabloid, as journalists prepared the paper's final edition.The News Corp. chief was expected to arrive in Britain on Sunday, a company source said, just days after the shock decision to close the News of the World which has been in circulation for 168 years.

A phone hacking scandal which brought down Britain's mass-circulation News of the World tabloid threatened to ensnare Prime Minister David Cameron with Friday's expected arrest of his former press chief.Media mogul Rupert Murdoch killed off the 168-year-old tabloid in a stunning move Thursday as the spiralling phone hacking crisis threatened to infect the rest of his empire and taint the country's leader.

Britain's News of the World was published for the last time on Sunday after the tabloid was axed amid the phone-hacking scandal, as its owner Rupert Murdoch flew in to take charge of managing the crisis.After 168 years of scoops and scandals, Britain's top-selling weekly newspaper hit newsstands for the final time with the headline "Thank You and Goodbye."While most of the paper was dedicated to celebrating the newspaper's many world exclusives and campaigns, it also included an apology to readers in an editorial, which said: "Quite simply, we lost our way."

The board of BSkyB gave chairman James Murdoch its "unanimous support" on Thursday, a source close to the British satellite broadcaster said, despite the furore over the phone-hacking scandal.The 38-year-old son and heir apparent of News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch had faced calls from some shareholders to resign over the crisis surrounding alleged wrongdoing at his father's now defunct News of the World newspaper.

Actress Sienna Miller was set Friday to accept £100,000 (115,000 euros, $162,000) in damages from Britain's News of the World after the newspaper admitted hacking into her mobile phone messages.Lawyers for Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers, which publishes the popular tabloid, admitted this week at London's High Court unconditional liability for the wrongs alleged by the star and agreed to compensate her.