LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers feasted on Friday on the demise of one of their own — Britain’s News of the World — serving up headlines such as “World’s End” and “Hacked To Death.”

But other properties within his News Corp empire offered more sober reporting or buried the story in inside pages.

The Sun, which dominates the British tabloid market during the week in the same way News of the World did on Sundays, hyped the closing of under the front-page headline “World’s End.” Friday’s front page marked a departure from The Sun’s previous practice of making little mention of the telephone- hacking scandal that led to its 168-year-old sister publication’s abrupt demise.

LONDON/NEW YORK, July 8 (Reuters) – From front-page splashes to slim stories buried inside, readers of London and New York newspapers owned by News Corp (NWSA.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) were greeted on Friday with varied coverage of the shutdown of Rupert Murdoch’s weekly News Of The World.

The Sun, which dominates the British tabloid market during the week in the way the News of the World did on Sundays, splashed the closing of its 168-year-old sister paper due to a scandal involving controversial reporting tactics under the front-page headline “World’s End.”

Friday’s front page exposure marked a departure from The Sun’s previous practice of making little mention of the phone-hacking scandal.

LONDON (Reuters) – As Japan considers burying its destroyed nuclear reactors in concrete, as at Chernobyl, other aspects of the disaster at Fukushima have also drawn comparisons with the drama that hit the Soviet Union 25 years ago.

Among these is the way the public has complained of feeling kept in the dark as a situation which officials at first said was fairly minor has slowly built to catastrophic proportions.

Back in 1986, the first indication the world was suffering its worst nuclear disaster came when a Swedish power station worker’s clothing set off a radiation warning.