- In 1988 the parents of actor David Scarboro who played Mark Fowler in BBC's Eastenders commenced liable proceedings with solicitor Michael Shelton due to the hounding of David whilst he suffered from mental illness. During this time the News of the World and its sister paper The Sun published stories calling him a 'Zombie' as well as 'Dracula' and purported that he took cocaine. According to the parents this escalated David's depression resulting in him committing suicide on 27 April 1988. Due to the suicide the libel action was forced to cease.[47]
- In 2005, England footballer David Beckham and his wife Victoria brought a legal action against the paper seeking libel damages over an article that carried the headline "Posh and Becks on the Rocks"; suggesting that their marriage was under pressure. The legal action was withdrawn in 2006 and "resolved on a confidential basis," according to the couple's spokeswoman Jo Milloy.
- In April 2006, England footballer Wayne Rooney received £100,000 in damages from the publishers of the News of the World and its sister paper The Sun over articles falsely reporting he had slapped his fiancée Coleen (now his wife). Both had always denied the reports.
- In June 2006, England footballer Ashley Cole received damages from the publishers of the News of the World over articles incorrectly alleging the footballer had used a mobile phone as a gay sex toy, just weeks before his marriage to pop star Cheryl Tweedy. Together with its sister paper The Sun, the News of the World paid Cole £100,000 to settle the case.
- In July 2006, a libel action brought by the Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan came to court in Edinburgh. Sheridan denied allegations, made by the newspaper in November 2004 and January 2005, that he had an affair, engaged in group sex and attended a swinger's club in Manchester. Sheridan won the case and was awarded £200,000 in damages. The newspaper intends to appeal against the jury's decision,[48] and has refused to pay out the money; Sheridan and his wife Gail were charged with perjury; the court case commenced on 4 October 2010. Charges against Gail were dropped and she was acquitted on 17 December 2010.[49] Tommy was subsequently convicted[50] on 23 December 10. The case was the longest perjury trial in Scottish history.
- In 2008 in the invasion of privacy case Mosley v News Group Newspapers Limited the President of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile Max Mosley challenged the News of the World newspaper which had alleged on 30 March 2008 that he had been involved in a sadomasochistic sex act involving several female prostitutes, when they published a video of the incident recorded by one of the women, and published details of the incident. The case resulted in Mosley being awarded £60,000 (approx. ) in damages.
- In January 2010 Norwich City Football Club started legal proceedings against the News of the World after they published an article, "Canaries on Brink" on 24 January 2010 claiming that the club had begun the processes of going into administration.[51]
- In February 2010, the Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie made plans to sue the News of the World after it published allegations about their relationship.[52]
- In June 2011, the UK Press Complaint Commission (PCC) gave Yasir Hameed, Pakistani Cricketer, a victory by ordering the News of the World to remove a video and story about Yasir Hameed from its website.[53]
- Also in 2011, footballer Artur Boruc won an out-of-court settlement against the News of the World after the newspaper made untrue allegations about the goalkeeper being unfaithful to his girlfriend. Mr. Boruc was paid £70,000 and a full apology was issued
Monday, November 12, 2012
Libel actions
Links to police corruption
In a September 2010 interview broadcast on 7 July 2011 on the BBC Radio 4 news programme The World at One, former News of the World features editor Paul McMullan made an admission relating to police corruption. He told of having used material obtained by a colleague's bribery of a police officer as the basis of a series of articles published over several years on Jennifer Elliott, the daughter of the actor Denholm Elliott. He stated, 'The going rate for that kind of thing might have been two to five hundred pounds and that would have been authorised, and he [i.e. the police officer] would have been paid... and he would have been on the lookout for another story...' The articles described Ms Elliott's destitute situation and stated that she had worked as a prostitute. Jennifer Elliott killed herself in 2003. In Mr McMullan's opinion the News of the World – specifically, his own articles – contributed significantly to her suicide.[45] In 2011, the paper knowingly used private investigators to gain stories from corrupt police officers.
Phone hacking scandal
In 2006, reporters at the paper used private investigators to illegally gain access to hundreds of mobile phone voicemail accounts held by a variety of people of interest to the newspaper. In 2007 the paper's royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, pleaded guilty to illegal interception of personal communication and was jailed for four months; the paper's editor, Andy Coulson, had resigned two weeks earlier. In 2009/2010, further revelations emerged on the extent of the phone hacking, and how it was common knowledge within theNews of the World and its News International parent. According to a former reporter at the paper, "Everyone knew. The office cat knew," about the illegal activities used to scoop stories.[36] On 17 January 2011, The Guardian reported that Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator paid by the paper, testified that he had been asked by the newspaper's leadership to hack voicemail accounts on its behalf.[37] In April 2011, attorneys for the victims alleged that as many as 7,000 people had their phones hacked by the News of the World;[38] it was further revealed that the paper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, had attempted to pressure Prime Minister Gordon Brown andLabour Party MPs to "back away" from investigating the scandal.[39] Three journalists on the newspaper were initially arrested: Ian Edmondson and Neville Thurlbeck on 5 April[40] and James Weatherup on 14 April.[41] The newspaper "unreservedly" apologised for its phone hacking activities during April 2011.[42] On 4 July 2011, it was disclosed that potential evidence had been deleted in spring 2002 from the hacked voicemail account of Milly Dowler, then missing, but later found to have been murdered
1843 to 1968
The newspaper was first published as The News of the World on 1 October 1843, by John Browne Bell in London.[11] Priced at three pence (equal to £1.04 today), even before the repeal of the Stamp Act (1855) or paper duty (1861), it was the cheapest newspaper of its time[12] and was aimed directly at the newly literate working classes. It quickly established itself as a purveyor of titillation, shock and criminal news. Much of the source material came from coverage of vice prosecutions, including transcripts of police descriptions of alleged brothels, streetwalkers, and "immoral" women.
Before long, the News of the World established itself as the most widely read Sunday paper, with initial sales of around 12,000 copies a week. Sales then suffered because the price was not cut following the abolition of newspaper taxes and the paper was soon no longer among the leading Sunday titles, selling around 30,000 by 1880, a greater number but a smaller proportion, as newspaper sales had grown hugely. The title was sold by the Bell family in 1891 to Lascelles Carr who owned the Welsh Western Mail. As editor, he installed his nephew Emsley Carr, who held the post for 50 years. But the real engine of the paper's now quick commercial success was George Riddell, who reorganised its national distribution using local agents. Matthew Engel, in his bookTickle the Public: One Hundred Years of the Popular Press (Gollancz, 1996), says that the News of the World of the 1890s was "a very fine paper indeed". The paper was not without its detractors, though. As one writer later related:
new news
The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, and at closure still had one of the highest English language circulations.[4] Originally established as a broadsheet by John Browne Bell, the Bells sold to Lascelles Carr in 1891; in 1969 it was bought from the Carrs by Rupert Murdoch's media firm News Limited. Reorganised into News International, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation, it was transformed into a tabloid in 1984 and became the Sunday sister paper of The Sun. The newspaper concentrated on celebrity-based scoops and populist news. Its fondness for sex scandals gained it the nicknames News of the Screws and Screws of the World.[5] It had a reputation for exposing national or local celebrities as drug users, sexual peccadilloes, or criminals, setting up insiders and journalists in disguise to provide either video or photographic evidence, and phone hacking in ongoing police investigations.[6][7]Sales averaged 2,812,005 copies per week in October 2010.[8]
From 2006, allegations of phone hacking began to engulf the newspaper. These culminated in the revelation on 4 July 2011 that, nearly a decade earlier, a private investigator hired by the newspaper had intercepted and deleted the voicemail of missing British teenager Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered. However, aScotland Yard spokesperson later admitted at the Leveson Inquiry that it had not been a private investigator who had deleted Dowler's voicemail.
Amid a public backlash and the withdrawal of advertising, News International announced the closure of the newspaper on 7 July 2011.[7][9] The scandal deepened when the paper was alleged to have hacked into the phones of families of British service personnel killed in action. Senior figures on the newspaper have been held for questioning by police investigating the phone hacking and corruption allegations. Arrested on 8 July 2011 were former editor Andy Coulson and former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman, the latter jailed for phone hacking in 2007. The former executive editor Neil Wallis was arrested on 15 July 2011 and former editorRebekah Brooks, the tenth person held in custody, on 17 July 2011.
On a visit to London on 17 February 2012, Murdoch announced he was soon to launch a Sunday edition of The Sun, widely seen as a successor to the News of the World. On 19 February 2012 it was announced that the first edition of The Sun on Sunday would be printed on 26 February 2012.[10] It would employ a number of former News of the World journalists.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Vjen sërish me linjën e të brendshmeve
Modelja me linjat perfekte të trupit, Robyn Laëely është bërë edhe një herë një divë e industrisë së modës.
Nëpërmjet modeleve të reja të linjës së të brendshmeve, modelja si duket ka pasur mjaft hapësirë të shfaqë edhe linjat e saja trupore./Indeksonline/
Wow, po shperthen…fustani i Tamara-s
Pamela Anderson mahnit spektatoret me veshjen e saj SUPER ekstravagante (foto)
Pamela Anderson mahnit spektatoret me veshjen e saj SUPER ekstravagante
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Lady Gaga ben nje tatuazh te ri, pasi qethi floket (Foto)
Opss..Kate topless: Shtepia mbreterore:"Atentat grotesk jetes private"(Foto)
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Përdoruesit e internetit me siguri e njohin këtë vajzë, sepse në rrjetet sociale fotoja e saj qarkullon me komente tallëse dhe konsiderohet si gruaja më e shëmtuar në botë. 23-vjeçarja nga Teksas (SHBA) thekson se pas vitesh vuajtjeje, ka mësuar të mos i vërë veshin fjalëve dhe talljeve që i bëjnë njerëzit kryesisht nëpërmjet webit./BalkanWeb
Nu do e me maska, ja invazioni perfekt i fushes se futbollit (video)
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Këto veshje SE KSI nuk lënë shumë vend për imagjinatën (FOTO)
Shpesh ato janë kritikuar për veshjet e tyre, pasi tregojnë më shumë se ç’duhet. Por balerinat profesioniste të “Strictly Come Dancing” duket se nuk i kanë marrë aspak parasysh këto kritika. Dje ato janë shfaqur në prezantimin e serive të reja të spektaklit të vallëzimit me veshje që tregonin sërish më shumë se ç’duhet.
Më shumë në sy ka rënë biondja e mrekullueshme Natalie Lowe, por nuk ka ngelur më pas as Kristina Rihanoff.
“Strictly Come Dancing” nis të shtunën në BBC 1.
Spektakli i nisur fillimisht në Britani është përhapur në mbarë botën.
Bleona realizon foto “nu do” në Prishtinë
Eh cfare te ben dashuria...Kim Kardashian tani dhe keshilla mode nga Kanye West....
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Modelja shqiptare thyen cdo tabu, pozon nu do...
Kjo foto nuk eshte nga klipi +18 i Linda Halimit, pasi ne ate video nuk mund te shohesh as afer dicka si kjo. Ne te vertete, kjo eshte nje nder fotot me te guximshme nudo dhe me seksi qe eshte bere ndonjehere nga ndonje vajze shqiptare.
Fjala eshte per modelen e njohur shqiptare Vildane Zeneli e cila eshte fotografuar kohe me pare nga mjeshtri Raphael Mazzucco per librin e tij fotografik “CULO” nen moton “Bota nuk eshte me e rrafshet”.
Këngëtarja pret flokët shumë shkurt: Këtë e bëra për ty Terry!
Ylli i muzikës shfaqet me këtë luk të ri në një fotografi, ku kjo prerje e re e flokëve nuk është një përzgjedhje stili, por këtë model e ka bërë për nder të nënës së mikut të saj, fotografit Terry Richardson, raporton noa.al.
“Këtë prerje flokësh e bëra për ty Terry. Më vjen keq për nënën tënde”, shkruan Gaga në profilin e saj në Twitter.
Këngëtarja në këtë dedikim, i referohet vdekjes së nënës së fotografit, i cili pak më parë informoi për humbjen tragjike, ku shkruante: “R.I.P. Annie Lomax, nëna ime, 1938-2012”.
Nu do ne emision live (Foto+video)
Një i ftuar në një studio televizive i ka zbërthyer fustanin prezantueses, duke e zhveshur nudo në mes të skenës. Emisioni transmetohej drejtpërsëdrejti dhe kishte një auditor të gjerë, kur prezantuesja Maria Lapierda, gruaja e Juan Laporta, teksa po bënte një prezantim e pa veten të zhveshur në skenë.
Por, shfaqja kaloi pa problem për shkak edhe të sjelljes sportive dhe të natyrshme të prezantueses. Madje, nj skenë e tillë duket se ka hutuar edhe ekipin e televizionit, i cili fiku dritat në skenë pas disa minutash. 28 veçarja Lapiedra, gjatë karrierës së saj si aktore e filmave porno, ka xhiruar më tepër se 70 filma për të rritur.
Pink ngre fustanin, tregon të brendshmet (foto)
Los Angeles, 11 shtator 2012, NOA- Pink gjatë një interviste televizive nuk ka nguruar të ngrerë fustanin e saj dhe të tregojë të brendshmet që mbante veshur.
Ajo është nëna e një djali të vogël vetëm 15-muajsh, por fakti i të qenit nënë nuk e pengon Pink të bëjë gjëra ekstreme, raporton noa.al.
Pink, e cila festoi javën e fundit 33-vjetorin e saj mbante veshur poshtë fustanit një palë të brendshme të zeza dhe tepër sportive.
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