News UK 16 September 2014 by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Times Newspapers Limited publishes the compact daily newspaper "The Times" and the broadsheet "The Sunday Times". Times Newspapers was formed in 1967 when The Thomson Corporation purchased "The Times" from the Astor family and merged it with "The Sunday Times", which it had owned since 1959. The company was purchased by Murdoch's News International in February 1981. The acquisition followed an intense 21 days of negotiations with the print unions conducted by John Collier and Bill O'Neill. "The Times Literary Supplement", "Times Educational Supplement" and "Times Higher Education Supplement" were
Al Yaum (newspaper) of its correspondents. In 1982, one of its reporters was detained for two years. The same year literary supplement of the paper was suspended by Saudi government. List of newspapers in Saudi Arabia Al Yaum (newspaper) Al Yaum (in Arabic اليوم meaning "The Day" "Today" in Arabic) is a Dammam-based, supposedly pro-government Arabic daily newspaper published in Saudi Arabia. "Al Yaum" was first published in Dammam in 1965. Initially, it was a weekly eight-page magazine. Its frequency and size improved over time, becoming a daily newspaper in 1978. The owner and publisher of the paper is Dar Al Yaum Organization