News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch arrives at his residence in central London on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
ASSOCIATED PRESS News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch arrives home in London on Wednesday, the day it was announced that his company dropped its bid to buy controlling interest in British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB).
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**FILE** Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp. (Associated Press)
** FILE ** In this Tuesday, April 5, 2011, file photo, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown answers question during an interview with the Associated Press in Geneva, Switzerland. British media say that former Prime Minister Gordon Brown had his personal information targeted by elements of Rupert Murdoch's media empire. (AP Photo/Salvatore Di Nolfi, File)
James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch, holds a leadership position in his father's media group as chairman of News International. (Associated Press)
Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., shown with chief executive Rebekah Brooks, has traveled to London in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal that has shaken his media empire. A pending deal to acquire full control of British Sky Broadcasting is threatened. (Associated Press)
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch reads the last edition of Britain's News of the World tabloid as he arrives at the offices of his U.K. newspaper division in this image taken from television on Sunday, July 10, 2011. Mr. Murdoch arrived in Britain to face the growing phone-hacking scandal that prompted the paper's closure. (AP Photo/Pool)
FILE- In this file photo from Tuesday Jan. 30, 1996, Rupert Murdoch, right, Chairman and CEO of The News Corporation Limited, listens as Roger Ailes speaks during a New York news conference after he was named chairman and CEO of News Corp. Ailes told a former publishing executive to lie to federal investigators who vetted now-disgraced ex-New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik for a Cabinet post in 2004, according to court documents cited in a news report Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
