View Photo Gallery — British cellphone hacking scandal escalates: News of the World, the British tabloid beset by a widening phone-hacking scandal, printed its last edition July 10. Rupert Murdoch pulled the plug on the paper amid allegations that its employees hacked into the cellphones of a slain schoolgirl and the families of London terror victims.

LONDON — Calling it “the most humble day” of his life, Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch confronted angry lawmakers Tuesday, insisting they did not know the scope of phone hacking at their News of the World tabloid and apologizing for being the source of one of the worst crises in the history of British media.

On a day of reckoning for News Corp. in Britain, Rupert Murdoch, a baron of the conservative press whose media empire runs from Fox News to the saucy old tabloids of Fleet Street, put himself forward to face a nation’s fury. Murdoch repeatedly pounded his hand on a table at the select parliamentary committee hearing as he testified but appeared removed from day-to-day details of the scandal and unprepared for the almost forensic lines of questioning.

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