New Delhi: As Julian Assange's WikiLeaks continues to cause embarrassment to governments across the globe, its latest target is the world's largest maker of movies Bollywood, the reference of which appears in several of the leaked embassy cables made public by the whistleblowing website. Many of the cables are surprisingly succinct and contain detailed analysis of the Indian film industry that churns out almost 1000 films a year and generates...
12:02 AM, Sep 07, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday asked the High Court to block his 'legally flawed' extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations. Lawyers for Assange challenged a ruling by District Judge Howard Riddle at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in south London that extradition should go ahead. Ben Emmerson, lawyer appearing for Assange, 40, told two judges the European arrest warrant on which he was being held was flawed because it...
05:54 PM, Jul 12, 2011
London: Our sense of justice is built into the brain, with in-built mechanisms that trigger an automatic reaction to someone who acts unfairly. In a new study from the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, the sense of justice among subjects was challenged in a two-player money-based fairness game, while their brain activity was registered by an MR scanner. When bidders made unfair suggestions as to how to share the money, they were...
06:41 PM, May 05, 2011
Washington: India has ranked 71st in happiness with only 17 per cent people describing themselves as "thriving" in a new study of well-being that gives Denmark the top spot among 124 countries surveyed. With Danes ranked the most contented people on the planet with a whopping 72 per cent of residents considering themselves "thriving," Sweden and Canada followed close behind, each at 69 per cent in Gallup's 2010 Global Wellbeing...
11:32 AM, Apr 21, 2011
Congress leader Salman Khursheed speaks to CNN-IBN on the Bofors payoff case. ...
04:18 PM, Mar 04, 2011
London: Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have filed an appeal against a ruling that he be extradited to Sweden to face sex-crimes allegations, court officials said on Thursday. Officials at the High Court in London and Assange lawyers said the papers had been lodged. No date has been set for a hearing. Last week, a judge ruled that Assange should be extradited to face allegations of rape and sexual...
06:01 PM, Mar 03, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who rocked the US government by publishing thousands of secret diplomatic memos, must be extradited to Sweden to face sex crimes allegations, a British judge ruled on Thursday. Assange's lawyers said immediately they planned to appeal against the decision to London's High Court and it could still be months before the legal process in Britain reaches an end. The 39-year-old Australian computer expert remains in...
07:03 AM, Feb 25, 2011
London: A British judge says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden over sex crimes claims. Judge Howard Riddle says the allegations of rape and sexual molestation by two women are extraditable offenses and a Swedish warrant was properly issued. Lawyers for Assange have a week to appeal Thursday's decision. Riddle says "there is simply no reason to believe there has been a mistake" in issuing the warrant....
05:08 PM, Feb 24, 2011
London: A lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused Sweden's prime minister on Friday of damaging his client's chances of a fair trial for alleged sex crimes by portraying him as "public enemy number one". Assange's lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, opposing a Swedish bid to extradite the Australian, said Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt had created a "toxic atmosphere" in Sweden with what he said was an inflammatory statement about Assange. The...
06:55 AM, Feb 12, 2011
Boston: Embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, fighting an extradition case over sexual misconduct, has at least "four love children" with mistresses across the world, according to leaked excerpts of a tell-all book by a WikiLeaks defector. Former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who left the organisation amid tensions with Assange, has revealed in his forthcoming book that the 39-year old Assange used to "boast" about how many children he has fathered...
12:50 PM, Feb 11, 2011
London: The man famous for leaking thousands of secret US military and diplomatic documents just spent two days in court fighting extradition to Sweden and criticizing prosecutors there for allegedly leaking his name to the media in a sex crimes inquiry. No one in court acknowledged any irony in Julian Assange's efforts to seek the protection of confidentiality. At a testy hearing in a London courtroom, both sides traded pointed...
07:09 AM, Feb 09, 2011
London: The lawyer for Julian Assange argued on Monday that the embattled WikiLeaks founder will face a secret trial that violates international standards of fairness if sent to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations. Geoffrey Robertson told an extradition hearing that Assange would not get a fair trial because of his notoriety and because Swedish rape cases are customarily held without public or media present, to protect the alleged victims....
06:55 AM, Feb 08, 2011
A UK court will decide on Assange's extradition in the sexual assault case on two women in Sweden. ...
11:44 AM, Feb 07, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his entourage of lawyers, supporters, protesters and journalists are headed back to a London court for a showdown between the secret-spilling computer hacker and Swedish authorities who want him extradited to face sex crimes allegations. A two-day hearing that begins on Monday will decide Assange's legal fate. It will also keep the spotlight away from WikiLeaks' revelations and on its opinion-dividing frontman. Assange is...
11:41 PM, Feb 06, 2011
London: China is the "technological enemy" of WikiLeaks and not the United States, according to Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website which is fighting a running battle to penetrate the aggressive and sophisticated Chinese censorship. "China is the worst offender," when it comes to censorship, says the controversial Australian hacker, now on bail in Britain fighting attempts to extradite him to Sweden over claims of sexual assaults. The...
11:45 AM, Jan 14, 2011
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in Sweden over claims he sexually assaulted two women, appeared in a court on Tuesday and expressed his readiness to fight extradition from the UK. The defence team of the 39-year-old Australian, who denies the charges, was ready for a two-day extradition case, which was set for February 7 and 8 during a hearing at a court here, his lawyer Geoffrey Robertson said. District...
06:29 PM, Jan 11, 2011
London: Julian Assange is due to appear in court again in the extradition case. The whistle-blower website founder will be produced in a London court on Tuesday. He has been booked for sexual offences. The prime issue will be the confirmation of bail for him and his supporters expect that as clearly he hasn't absconded as the Swedish prosecutor had argued. The question then before the court is that if...
07:25 AM, Jan 11, 2011
London: It was their first dissection, but students at one of Sweden's top medical schools were faced with a familiar sight in the classroom - the body on the table belonged to their late teacher. "The first autopsy is really, really emotional, and we autopsied someone we knew," one of the shocked students told news agency TT quoted by the Telegraph newspaper here. "I feel something in the routines went...
11:45 AM, Dec 20, 2010
New York: After he leaked hundreds of thousands of secret US diplomatic cables, Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, is getting it back with the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish police report that sheds new light on the alleged sexual misconduct by the Australian. The Swedish report traces events over a four-day period in August this year when 39-year-old Assange had what he has described as...
08:08 PM, Dec 19, 2010
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