BBC News with Marion Marshall

Greece has appointed Lucas Papademos as its new prime minister. Speaking after his appointment, Mr Papademos said Greece was at a crossroads with huge problems. Mark Lowen reports from the Greek capital Athens.

After days of speculation and disagreement, the man taking one of Europe's most

unenviable

jobs is known: Lucas Papademos, a 64-year-old former deputy at the European Central Bank. He's likely to have the confidence of Europe's leaders given his past experience, but whether he can win the backing of the Greek people who are not quite so fond of bankers at present is less clear. Mr Papademos says the priority is looking to the future to vote through last month's bailout package so Greece can continue to get its international loan and calm fears that it could yet leave the euro.

The chairman of News International, James Murdoch, has reaffirmed to a panel of British MPs that he did not know at the time that illegal phone

hacking

was widespread at one of his newspapers, the now defunct News of the World. Here's our political correspondent Robin Brant.

This was James Murdoch's second showing in front of the committee. MPs wanted to ask him about

inconsistencies

in the evidence that they've heard. He was insistent, though, he hadn't been shown a crucial email, nor had its significance been explained to him. The most dramatic moment, though, was when the Labour MP Tom Watson called him a mafia boss, something he said was offensive.