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"Investigations by the Australian Financial Review, the BBC’s Panorama programme in the UK and PBS’s Frontline in the US, have brought an array of allegations against News Corp back into the headlines on three continents", reports the Financial Times. It says many of the claims (about smartcard hacking at its NDS subsidiary) have been challenged by News Corp before. "But they come at a sensitive time, when Mr Murdoch’s company faces police investigations and an assessment of whether it is a 'fit and proper' media owner in the UK; inquiries by the FBI and other US agencies; and an Australian review of a bid for Austar by Foxtel, in which News Corp owns a stake.