Choose the correct answer form the alternatives given. Which news corporation was recently alleged to have been using illicit hacking into voice- mail messages of prominent people to find stories?
A
News of the World (NoW)
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B
BBC
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C
CNN
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D
AajTak
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Solution
The correct option is A News of the World (NoW) The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. From 2006, allegations of phone hacking began to engulf the newspaper. These culminated in the revelation on 4 July 2011 that, nearly a decade earlier private investigator hired by the newspaper had intercepted the voicemail of missing British teenager Milly Dowler who was later found murdered.