WIKILEAKS

China used its regulatory powers to scour the books of Citibank Shanghai in a hostile and extraordinarily intrusive 2007 audit that appeared primarily aimed at controlling Citi's growth and uncovering its secrets to success, the bank's top China executive at the time told U.S. officials.

The defence lawyer for former Liberian president Charles Taylor defied the Sierra Leone war crimes court on Tuesday, walking out in protest ahead of closing arguments in the case and calling it a farce.

Accused of some of the highly stigmatized felonies, will Assange or WikiLeaks still be considered for Nobel Prize? However, Al Gore, who won the 2007 Peace award, did have a similar sexual assualt taint.

With increasing number of government and other high-profile websites being targeted almost everyday, 'hacktivism' seems to have reached its peak. The recent targets of 'hacktivists' are listed here.

A dossier of official documents giving insights into the release of the Lockerbie bomber is due to be published this week.

Egypt's new vice president, Omar Suleiman, has long sought to demonize the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in his contacts with skeptical U.S. officials, leaked diplomatic cables show, raising questions whether he can act as an honest broker in the country's political crisis.

Norway MP, Snorre Valen nominates Julian Assange's whistleblower website WikiLeaks for Noble Prize and hails it for contribution to Tunisian Revolution and the following Arab protests.

While the much ado about UFOs is giving birth to “UFO travel destinations”, unprecedented number of sightings across the globe get people skeptic about extraterrestrial life. Security concerns from the United Nations could cover-up WikiLeaks yet-to-be-released secret UFO files.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reportedly warned financial institutions in New York of potential terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda after published reports surfaced around a month back.

Quoting observers of the Nobel Prize, an international news agency has reported that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be one among the nominations this year.

Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi finds himself in a potentially dangerous predicament.

Wikileaks, by releasing damning cables from the U.S. ambassador to Tunisia, impacted the country's decision to revolt.

The U.S. government secretly supported leading opposition figures in Egypt who have been preparing to topple President Hosni Mubarak for the past three years, according to cables released by Wikileaks.

U.S. diplomats were gravely concerned about Egypt’s poor human rights record (including the use of torture by police and the jailing of dissidents) and expressed misgivings about President Hosni Mubarak’s plans to allow his son to succeed him, according to cables released by WikiLeaks.

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.

Web sites run by the Egyptian government are experiencing service problems, possibly as a result of denial of service attacks mounted by the collective known as Anonymous

The group called Anonymous has set up a Facebook page and is asking people to take part in distributed denial of service attacks on Egyptian government web sites.

Police questioned former banker Rudolf Elmer on Thursday over possible fresh breaches of Swiss bank law for giving data to WikiLeaks this week, a day after he was found guilty of violating bank secrecy.

The former Swiss banker who is set expose the bank accounts of wealthy tax-evaders and other prominent individuals to WikiLeaks, has himself been found guilty in a Swiss court of having violated the country’s band secrecy laws through some previous disclosures of bank data.

A Swiss court found former banker Rudolf Elmer guilty on Wednesday of breaching strict banking secrecy for publicizing private client data and of threatening an employee at his former firm Julius Baer.

The boss of a German technology company has apparently lost his job as a result of comments attributed to him in a WikiLeaks document.