Tabloid in UK hacking scandal readies last edition

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LONDON: Soon-to-be out of work journalists readied the last edition of Britain's News of the World tabloid on Saturday, as Britain's media establishment reeled from the burgeoning phone-hacking scandal that brought down the 168-year-old muckraking tabloid.

Rupert Murdoch, whose media empire owns the paper, will arrive in London on a scheduled visit Sunday. The 80-year-old will arrive on the same day that the News of the World's final edition hits newsstands. Murdoch's News International shut it down following allegations that the paper's journalists paid police for information and hacked into the voicemails of young murder victims, celebrities and the grieving families of dead soldiers.