News Headlines - 19 July 2011

▽Rupert Murdoch denies knowledge of phone hacking or secret payments - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8648864/Rupert-Murdoch-attacked-by-protester.html
Rupert Murdoch admitted yesterday that he had known nothing of his company’s phone hacking scandal or the secret payments which helped to conceal it from the world.

▽Murdoch Hearing Brings Foam Pie, Grilling - The Associated Press
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBR6HLOftQ
A protester splattered Rupert Murdoch with white foam on Tuesday, interrupting a dramatic hearing in which the media baron told British lawmakers he was not responsible for a phone hacking scandal that has rocked his global empire.

▽Obama Embraces Senators’ Deficit-Cutting Plan - Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-19/u-s-house-set-to-pass-doomed-spending-cut-bill-with-no-debt-deal-imminent.html
President Barack Obama embraced a $3.7 trillion debt-cutting plan by a bipartisan group of senators that would combine tax increases and spending cuts, saying it could offer a way out of the congressional deadlock over raising the U.S. borrowing limit.

▽HOW THE RICH GERMANS ROBBED US OF TRAIN JOBS - Express.co.uk
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/259515/How-the-rich-Germans-robbed-us-of-train-jobs
BRITISH train maker Bombardier had “the odds stacked against it” in trying to win a key contract because its German rival spent hundreds of thousands of pounds influencing key Brussels decision makers, it was claimed yesterday.

▽Japan and US hold tea ceremony at Pearl Harbor - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/8648988/Japan-and-US-hold-tea-ceremony-at-Pearl-Harbor.html
US organisers on Tuesday hosted an ancient, ritualistic Japanese tea ceremony steeped in tradition at the watery grave of Pearl Harbor, an event symbolising how far the two countries have come.