Murdoch

US President Joe Biden took it on the chin Saturday at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner as he laughed gamely through sharp jokes about his age, and hit back with a few of his own.

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and model Jerry Hall have finalized their divorce after six years of marriage, Hall's lawyer said on Aug. 11.

It is the fourth divorce for the 91-year-old Murdoch, who married Hall, 66, in London in March 2016.

The Australian Murdoch, who owns many of the world's most famous newspapers, is worth more than $17 billion, according to Forbes.

Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox said on June 16 its board approved a shakeup that puts the 84-year-old tycoon's son James in the chief executive job effective July 1.

The media-entertainment conglomerate's board approved the plan in which the Australian-born magnate would step down as CEO and become co-executive chairman with his other son, Lachlan.

Rupert Murdoch will soon hand over the reins of the media dynasty that began with his father's Australian newspaper nearly a century ago to his sons.

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch?s controversial tweet suggesting that all Muslims are responsible for the massacre at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is reminiscent of the collective punishment imposed during Nazi rule, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said.

Referring to Murdoch?s tweet, Davuto?lu said he did not even want to utter the media mogul?s name.