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LOS ANGELES — Media magnate Rupert Murdoch has married for the fifth time at age 93, tying the knot with a retired molecular biologist a quarter century younger than him.

Murdoch and Elena Zhukova, 67, were wedded Saturday at the media mogul's California vineyard and estate, called Moraga.

Photographs published in The Sun, the British tabloid owned by Murdoch, show the couple posing and smiling -- he in a black suit and yellow tie and she in an off-the-shoulder white gown as she clutched a bouquet of lilies of the valley....

News Corp., the media empire controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said on Friday it is buying leading romantic novel publisher Harlequin Enterprises for 455 million Canadian dollars (300 million euros) in cash.

A U.S. federal judge dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and other executives of News Corp. alleging they withheld key information about the phone hacking scandal in Britain.

Rupert Murdoch's Australian operations pocketed an Aus$882 million (US$800 million) tax rebate from the new conservative government, reports said Monday, blowing a major hole in the country's budget.

Actor could be witness in stunt double's legal action

By Michael Holden and Mark Hosenball