News Corp will have to answer questions in Australia -PM


CANBERRA (Reuters) - The Australian arm of News Corp will have to answer "hard questions" in Australia following the growing phone hacking scandal in the United Kingdom, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Wednesday.

Gillard said Australians had been "disturbed" by events in Britain, where Australian-born Rupert Murdoch and his son James defended at a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday their handing of events that have shaken the family's grip on their media empire.

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