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A British-Greek journalist released from jail in Iran said Friday that he had been blindfolded, held in solitary confinement and subjected to frequent interrogations.

In this June 10, 2009 file photo, escorted by US officers one of the seventeen suspected Somali pirate is disembarked from the American naval warship MV Frigate Gettysburg soon after the ship docked at the port of Mombasa, following their apprehension by American naval officers in the dangerous waters off Yemen.

Crown prosecutors were carrying out an "urgent" review today of evidence related to alleged phone hacking by the News of the World.

North Korea has not yet sent two convicted U.S. journalists to a prison labor camp in a possible attempt to seek talks with Washington on their release, a scholar who visited the North said in an interview published Friday.

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Hollywood stars including Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law are at the center of a massive phone-tapping scandal following allegations their voice mail messages were hacked into by a U.K. tabloid.

MICHAEL JACKSON was high on painkillers when he announced his 50 comeback dates in London in March , according to a shocking new tell-all book.

A British newspaper is reporting that a Sunday tabloid paid out more than 1 million pounds in out-of-court settlements after violating the privacy of celebrities and politicians.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A University of Florida student was fired by The Gazette of Colorado Springs after the paper found similar and identical passages from The New York Times in four of her stories.

By TIM FOUGHT Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Ore. -- Attorney General John Kroger says he'll review Oregon's open government laws to see whether they're being interpreted correctly and whether he should ask the Legislature to change them.

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said he wanted answers from police over claims they knew his phone was tapped by private investigators working for journalists but was not told about it.

The first reaction of every journalist to the story of the Washington Post's advertiser-cum-salon dinner proposal was probably one of disgust and moral superiority.

AN unauthorised biography of the disgraced media tycoon Conrad Black contained a series of "ghastly" and "wholly unsubstantiated" claims which severely damaged the reputation of newspaper owner Richard Desmond, a court heard yesterday.

Veteran journalist and former Pulitzer Prize Board chairman Richard Oppel has joined the consulting firm Public Strategies Inc.

Spanish-born journalist Jose Sobrino Dieguez has died at his Manhattan home. He was 79 years old.

Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed a former state lawmaker and a newspaper publisher to the University of Missouri Board of Curators.

Gov. Jim Doyle's office is defending itself against a published report that called into question Doyle's travel expenses.

The United States is urging Russia to redouble its efforts to bring an American journalist's killers to justice.

A pro-reform Iranian clerical group said on Sunday the outcome of last month's presidential vote was 'invalid', even though supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has upheld the result.