Phone-hacking scandal widens, shares slump (AFP)



File picture shows the funeral of a soldier killed in Afghanistan. The impact of a tabloid phone-hacking scandal widened Thursday as shares in parent company News Corp. slumped amid revelations therelatives of dead soldiers may have been targeted.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - The impact of a tabloid phone-hacking scandal widened Thursday as shares in parent company News Corp. slumped amid revelations the relatives of dead soldiers may have been targeted.