Britain's Guardian newspaper was forced to apologise to Rupert Murdoch's The Sun on Wednesday for falsely alleging that the tabloid's reporters doorstepped a lawyer at the phone-hacking inquiry. In an unwelcome twist for the left-leaning paper which has led efforts to expose hacking at Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World weekly tabloid, the Guardian admitted in court that its front-page claim was wrong.
It also published a correction on its website, saying: "In a piece sketching the Leveson inquiry we incorrectly stated that the Sun newspaper sent a reporter to the home of a junior counsel to the Inquiry. The lawyer in question, Carine Patry Hoskins, became the subject of a brief craze on Twitter on Monday.