Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is to go ahead with plans to split into separate newspaper and entertainment operations, the company confirmed today.

Tycoon may cede day-to-day control of newspapers to focus on entertainment brands

The American publishing house behind the 155-year old magazine The Atlantic is set to launch a digital business news service which threatens the global position of the Financial Times and The Economist.

A plot to assassinate the former British ambassador to Afghanistan was foiled, the UK's current representative in Kabul has said.

1. David Hockney.

Outlook Johnson County in Kansas is one of the wealthiest suburbs in all of America. Everything always works, everyone always smiles and it is nearly always sunny, even if it is freezing cold. You'd like it.

The German chancellor Angela Merkel pressed for the removal of the former premier Silvio Berlusconi “in order to save the Euro”, according to a report that has caused a political storm in Italy.

Stephen Foley says some of the oil giant's American employees are now set to face criminal charges

Manchester United are planning to raise one billion US dollars (£610million) by selling shares on the Singapore stock market, according to reports.

Public face of newspaper Stuart Kuttner, now 71, is drawn in to scandal

The cheap, hardworking Chinese worker has helped Apple generate record profits from its range of iPods, iPads and elegant, if slightly overpriced, computing devices.

Osama bin Laden was planning a major attack on the United States to coincide with the 10th anniversary this year of the 11 September atrocity. The planning even went as far as considering candidates for the attack, a report in The Wall Street Journal claims.

Since his arrival in Britain to manage the phone-hacking crisis, just two words have been uttered in public by Rupert Murdoch.

The people one should feel sorry for, in the shame of the Government genuflection to Rupert Murdoch – or maybe it should be simply contempt – are the independent directors appointed to preserve the separated Sky news from his interference.