Former British Premier Rebuts Murdoch and Ex-Editor in Hacking Inquiry.

LONDON -- Starting four days of testimony by political leaders about the sway of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers over public life here, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday denied Mr. Murdoch's depiction of some of their most contentious exchanges and accused a leading Murdoch newspaper, The Sun, of undermining Britain's war effort in Afghanistan. He also rejected assertions by a former editor of The Sun that Mr. Brown's wife, Sarah, had approved a story in 2006 on the medical condition of the Browns' infant son, whose cystic fibrosis was diagnosed at 4 months. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]