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He admitted that he and his colleagues hacked into people’s phones and paid police officers for tips. He confessed to lurking in unmarked vans outside people’s houses, stealing confidential documents, rifling through celebrity garbage cans and pretending that he was not a journalist pursuing a story but “Brad the teenage rent boy,” propositioning a priest.

Someone sure seemed happy that Dominique Strauss-Kahn had gotten in trouble at a Manhattan hotel. The chief engineer of the posh Sofitel New York in Midtown high-fived someone who appears to work in the hotel’s security office shortly after learning Strauss-Kahn may have sexually assaulted a maid, says an explosive new report.

The hotel maid who has accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of trying to sexually assault her in a New York City hotel room has broken her public silence in an exclusive broadcast interview with ABC News.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire was besieged Monday by accusations that two more of his British newspapers engaged in hacking, deception and privacy violations that included accessing former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's bank account information and stealing the medical records of his seriously ill baby son.

DESPERATE Rupert Murdoch yesterday flew to London to try to save his ­crumbling empire. He arrived in a cowboy-style hat to be hit by claims News of the World reporters hacked the phones of 9/11 victims. Murdoch held talks with News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, amid fears nine staff and three cops may face jail.