JULIAN ASSANGE

A London court will rule on Wednesday whether WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, who angered the government by publishing thousands of secret diplomatic memos, can be extradited from Britain to Sweden for questioning over alleged sexual crimes.

Wikileaks is unable to collect donations through normal channels and shuts down to deal with its finances.

Julian Assange is now announcing a temporary suspension of the website's publishing efforts. By the end of the year, WikiLeaks could face shut down due to financial blockades from several major banks and credit card companies, some of which include Visa, Western Union, MasterCard, and PayPal.

On Monday, WikiLeaks, the whistleblower Web site, said it was temporarily stopping publication of classified documents and focusing on survival in the face of funding blockades.

WikiLeaks will have to stop publishing secret cables and devote itself to fund-raising if it is unable to end a financial blockade by U.S. firms such as Visa and MasterCard by the end of the year, founder Julian Assange said on Monday.

Wikileaks, a whistle-blowing Web site known for releasing secret government files, on Monday said it is suspending its publication in order to seek funding to sustain its work. Wikileaks has been forced to shift focus toward fundraising because 95 percent of its revenue has been destroyed.

WikiLeaks will have to stop publishing secret cables and devote itself to fund-raising if it is unable to end a financial blockade by U.S. firms such as Visa and MasterCard by the end of the year, founder Julian Assange said on Monday.

“WikiLeaks has published the biggest leaks in journalistic history. This has triggered aggressive retaliation from powerful groups.”

Those attending the London protests appeared to be students, unemployed college graduates, elderly pensioners and even passing tourists.

The New York Stock Exchange website was inaccessible for 30 minutes on Monday, according to an Internet monitoring company, but the exchange said there was no interruption of service.

The U.S. government has asked Google and Sonic to give up any WikiLeaks-related information and data, following with an order for them to turn over Appelbaum's e-mail contact list -- without a warrant.

A reported threat from an activist hacker group to take protests against Wall Street to the Internet by crippling the New York Stock Exchange website appeared to come to nothing on Monday.

The American government used a controversial secret court order to obtain information on the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, from Google Inc. and small-time Internet Service Provider (ISP) Sonic.net Inc.

Jobs' statue is shown holding a product depicting Apple‘s logo. The sculpture sports a high-necked black Tee, which resembles that worn by Jobs, at his two most notable public appearances over the last two years.

This year's Nobel Peace Prize -- to be announced in a week -- will be as interesting as the ones awarded to Barack Obama and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee told Reuters Thursday.

He laid bare the secrets of governments and corporations. But until now, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fiercely fought demands for more transparency in his own personal and financial affairs.

Julian Assange's contracted publishers will be releasing his official autobiography on Thursday without his consent.

The websites of several Mexican government ministries, including Defense and Public Security, went offline on Thursday, and a hacker group claimed responsibility.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange late last year told associates his website's entire cache of U.S. diplomatic cables must somehow be released, according to a written record of the discussion.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange late last year told associates his website's entire cache of U.S. diplomatic cables must somehow be released, according to a written record of the discussion.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange late last year told associates his website's entire cache of U.S. diplomatic cables must somehow be released, according to a written record of the discussion.