Rebekah Brooks, a close confidante of Rupert Murdoch, was charged on Tuesday with interfering with a police investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the tycoon's media empire and

British Prime Minister David Cameron gave a former tabloid newspaper editor whom he hired as his top spokesman access to some of the government's most sensitive secrets while he did not have full

In April, the S&P 500, a capitalisation-weighted index of the largest companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and on Nasdaq, registered its first monthly decline this year. This comes