BEIJING (AP) - Editors of a Chinese newspaper known for bold reporting were meeting Tuesday with propaganda officials to find a way out of a censorship dispute that has triggered protests and evolved into a political challenge for China's new le... [Full Article]
BEIJING (AP) - A dispute over censorship at a Chinese newspaper known for edgy reporting evolved Monday into a political challenge for China's new leadership as prominent scholars demanded a censor's dismissal and hundreds of protesters cal... [Full Article]
CARACAS (Reuters) - Vice President Nicolas Maduro returned to Venezuela on Thursday after visiting Hugo Chavez in hospital in Cuba, but gave no new details on the cancer-stricken president as rumors grow about his condition. Flanked by senior governm... [Full Article]
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar said Friday it will allow private daily newspapers starting in April for the first time since 1964, in the latest step toward allowing freedom of expression in the long-repressed nation. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
NBC was able to keep the abduction of chief Middle East correspondent Richard Engel in Syria largely a secret until he escaped late Monday because it persuaded some of this country's most prominent news organizations to hold back on the story. (... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - A police officer has been arrested on suspicion of leaking information to national newspapers about former British minister Andrew Mitchell's outburst at officers on Downing Street, Scotland Yard said on Sunday. The unnamed co... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - James Harding stepped down as editor of Rupert Murdoch's Times of London on Wednesday in the latest upheaval at the mogul's troubled British newspaper business. No formal reason was given but Harding indicated the decisio... [Full Article]
Chinese internet users are a little miffed today after the learning that the Communist Party's official news service has its own Twitter account, even though Twitter is supposed to be banned in China. The Xinhua News Agency has been posting on T... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - The FTSE 100 was flat in early deals on Thursday, with investors wary ahead of the final Bank of England and European Central Bank monetary policy decisions for 2012, although no changes are expected. Underlying support, however, c... [Full Article]
MELBOURNE/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, matriarch of the Murdoch media empire and mother of News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch, was both an inspiration and outspoken critic of her tumultuous family and balm to some of its excesses. A ph... [Full Article]