Topic: Western Europe
Britain's tabloids are braced for more damaging celebrity testimony this week at a public inquiry that has turned the tables on Fleet Street and could lead to major changes in the regulation of the press.Singer Charlotte Church and Alastair Campbell, the former ...
LONDON (Reuters) - "Harry Potter" author JK Rowling told a public inquiry into British media standards on Thursday she was forced to move house because of tabloid harassment and had been made to feel like a hostage in her home after she ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Celebrities fear a backlash from the British tabloid press if they speak out at an inquiry into media standards, comedian and actor Steve Coogan said on Tuesday, adding that newspapers were like the Mafia in the way they operated.A ...
Madonna admitted to an attack of nerves as she brought her new film W.E. to the UK to be screened at the BFI London Film Festival.The 53-year-old singer - who co-wrote and directed the film - greeted fans on the red carpet ...
LONDON (Reuters) - English actress Helena Bonham Carter and Irish actor Liam Neeson have joined the cast of comedian Ricky Gervais's new series "Life's Too Short," the BBC said on Friday.The comedy is about a dwarf actor, played by Warwick Davis, who ...
Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman are expected to be among the first Australian stars to feature when waxworks museum Madame Tussauds opens a venue in Sydney next year, according to the company.The world-famous London attraction will begin welcoming visitors in the Darling ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Benjamin Pell made a second career out of digging through the contents of people's rubbish bags and selling it to the British press. The office cleaner, or 'Benji the Binman' as he was known to his clients on Fleet ...
Hundreds of Harry Potter fans have been camping out for days in London's Trafalgar Square to secure a prime spot at Thursday's world premiere of the final film in the epic series.Sheltering from the traditional British summer rain, the hardcore fans were ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A British politician defied a court order on Monday by identifying Manchester United's Ryan Giggs as the soccer star fighting a legal battle to prevent newspapers from publishing allegations of an affair.The release of Giggs' name will be seen ...
LONDON (Reuters) - An increasingly farcical game of cat-and-mouse between Britain's media and celebrities, Twitter users and the judiciary prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to promise a review of the country's privacy laws on Monday.For weeks British media have been fighting the ...
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