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Standard & Poor’s - News Corp

Date 21/03/2005

Standard & Poor’s will increase News Corps. (ticker=NWS.A, sedol=B03DQ41) shares outstanding in the S&P Global 100 after the close of trading this evening to account for the 356.592 million shares issued to acquire the remaining shares of Fox Entertainment Group’s Class A stock it does not already own…News Corp. currently has 2938.341 million shares in the Index.