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Videos of convicted felon Bernard Madoff about doing fraud on Wall Street has been played in a federal court today to help bolster the case of the five former employees who were accused of conspiring with the former billionaire to dupe $17.5 billion in total from investors, Bloomberg said in a report.

Former News of the Worldeditor and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks denied in court that she consented to paying phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire to prevent him from disclosing information that might imply that several News Corp tabloids in the Uk were guilty of hacking.

Entertainment lawyers sought to challenge Ellen DeGeneres' ownership of the most famous selfie in history taken at the 2014 Academy Awards.