But told by the reporter from The Seattle Times that the newspaper planned to publish an article disclosing his infidelity, he finally admitted that it was true.
He said, however, that his newspaper planned to publish some of its findings by Oct. 7, the first anniversary of Ms. Politkovskaya's death.
A lawyer for The Times, David E. McCraw, said Friday that the newspaper planned to appeal the agency's decision to withhold physician information.
The defence secretary, Bob Ainsworth, was quoted as saying he had learned the Sun newspaper planned to run an interview with a British soldier arguing for similarly retrospective compensation for soldiers.
JK Rowling, Kate and Gerry McCann and other supporters of Hacked Off, the lobby group campaigning for press reforms, have written to David Cameron urging him to reject newspaper plans to set up their own regulator.
What irked them more was the news that he had made somewhat gauche attempts to suppress the story by threatening Kai Diekmann, editor of Bild, Germany's biggest tabloid daily, with "war" when he learnt that the newspaper planned to print the home-loan story.
The newspaper plans to expand its global audience and change the name of the International Herald Tribune to the International New York Times.
That said, the app represents a one-off payment and it's not yet known how the newspaper plans to make revenue sustainable.
In 1906, the Valdez News reported, "With the newspaper plans already in Fairbanks and with those which are being shipped there this year, the Tanana metropolis will be well supplied.
The newspaper plans to use the money to expand coverage of vital issues like the prison system and devote more attention to reporting on the city's immigrants.
