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Authored by award-winning journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, the book titled WIKILEAKS: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy was published on Monday by Guardian Books.

The world economy is beset by problems such as high unemployment and rising prices which could fuel trade protectionism and even lead to war within nations, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday.

The number of unemployed people in Germany fell in January 2011, reaching the lowest levels since November 1992.

[Gold] buying continued on fears the unrest in Egypt will spread across the Middle East, says Richcomm Global Services in Dubai. But Asia's gold market is less sensitive to what happened in Middle East compared to New York, said a Hong Kong dealer in a note this morning.

German retail sales fell unexpectedly in December 2010, posting a decline for a second consecutive month, the Federal Statistics Office said on Monday.

At least 10 people have been killed and three dozen have been injured in a train crash near Magdeburg in eastern Germany late Saturday night.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has expressed his “deep concern” over the increasingly dangerous situation in Egypt.

Thousands of angry Egyptians defied a curfew on Saturday for the second day in a row and stayed on the streets to push their demand that President Hosni Mubarak resign.

China has no need to revalue its yuan currency for trade reasons, as export growth will slow to a still strong 10 percent this year and its surplus is set to contract by 2015, its trade chief said on Friday.

Saudi Arabia’s state news agency reported that King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud criticized the protestors (claiming they are instigated by infiltrators) and strongly backed Mubarak

Christine Lagarde, France’s finance minister, suggested that time may be near to increase the size of The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), the European Union’s financial bailout fund reserve.

The global crackdown on movie piracy continues as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), in partnership with Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, swooped in on as many as 51 international torrent websites.

British police arrested five young men on Thursday as they and U.S. authorities conducted searches as part of a probe into Internet activists who carried out cyber attacks against groups they viewed as enemies of the WikiLeaks website.

Milestones in the progress of Chinese women's tennis after Li Na reached the final of the Australian Open on Thursday:

Global powers seeking to ensure Iran does not develop nuclear weapons are still hoping for a response from Tehran to a fuel swap proposal seen as a step towards ending the persistent standoff, Russia said on Thursday.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, defended the integrity of the euro currency at the World Economic Forum in Davos, by asserting that neither his country nor Germany will permit it to fail.

The gathering of business elites at Davos may witness the greatest concentration wealth in any one locale in history.

Toyota has issued a recall of 1.7 million cars, its largest ever, mainly in its Lexus brand

A report from OpenDNS shows that the social networking sites Facebook, MySpace and YouTube are among the most blocked and the most allowed websites.

The president and the auditor of a Costa Rican company selling reinsurance bonds to life settlement companies have been arrested and charged for their role in a $670 million fraud scheme.

A top antitrust partner at Howrey is leaving the law firm, adding to the growing number of top lawyers who have quit the firm in recent months.