During a recent conference call, Rupert Murdoch announced that he plans to fix the current newspaper business model by charging for access to news Corporation's newspaper web sites.

The same website exposed plagiarized passages in the doctoral thesis of Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who resigned as defense minister after being stripped of his PhD.

Rupert Murdoch, its boss, has long criticised Google for "stealing" his newspapers' stories by displaying links to them on Google's own news site.