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Below, a look at how the most recent turns in the phone hacking scandal—yesterday’s testimony to Parliament from Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, and the interruption in that testimony by a man with a foam pie—were treated on front pages of newspapers around the world. Photographically, the pie-throwing disturbance made many appearances, and text-wise, the word “humble” was frequently featured (“humble pie,” specifically, from the New York Daily News, the Guardian in London, the Irish Times of Dublin, and Durban, South Africa’s The Mercury).
Some of News Corps.’s papers gave the news front-page treatment…
….while other News Corp.-owned papers did not:
Here’s how the news looked in other papers today stateside…
….and, beyond:
London, UK
Sydney, Australia
Auckland, New Zealand
Dublin, Ireland
Hamburg, Germany
Prague, Czech Republic
Basel, Switzerland
Brussels, Belgium
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sofia, Bulgaria
Kozhikode, India
Calcutta, India
Dubai, UAE
Durban, South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Santiago, Chile (below the fold: Rupert Murdoch; above the fold: Owen Wilson)
Cancun, Mexico
Calgary, Canada
Montreal, Canada
Toronto, Canada
Nova Scotia, Canada
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