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8 December 2010 Last updated at 05:04 ET Australia FM blames US, not Julian Assange Australia's foreign minister has said the US is to blame for the release of thousands of diplomatic cables on Wikileaks, not its Australian founder, Julian Assange. Kevin Rudd said the release raised...

7 December 2010 Last updated at 05:14 ET French library finds Leonardo da Vinci manuscript A coded manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in a public library in the French city of Nantes. The document was found after a journalist came across a reference to it in a...

This is quite a long piece, so rather than paste it all here I shall include the link. I found it very interesting reading. BBC News - Wikileaks' struggle to stay online

Sky News Conservationists in China are resorting to extreme measures in their ongoing effort to increase the number of giant pandas in the wild. They are dressing up in costumes of the endangered animals to make sure cubs bred in capitivity do not get used to human contact before they are...

BBC News 7 December 2010 Last updated at 12:06 A printing error has forced the US to stockpile $110bn (£69.78bn) in new $100 notes until officials can sort and destroy the flawed bills. A snag in the printing process left up to 30% of the notes with a blank patch on the face, US network...

7 December 2010 Last updated at 17:44 ET BBC News Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, has died after a battle with breast cancer, a family spokesperson has said. Mrs Edwards' doctors announced on Monday that further treatment would be unproductive...

Sky News - December 7 Talks between the West and Iran over its nuclear programme have failed to make any progress - but President Ahmadinejad said negotiations could work if sanctions were scrapped Following the Geneva discussions, the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany...

6 December 2010 Last updated at 22:35 ET Share this A Texas judge is considering whether the death penalty is constitutional, in an unusual hearing ahead of a trial. The defendant, John Edward Green Jr, is accused of fatally shooting a woman in her driveway in front of her children...

BBC News - 7 December 2010 Last updated at 12:26 ET A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to halt Washington's alleged programme to capture or kill Americans who join militant groups abroad. The judge threw out the lawsuit by civil liberties organisations on jurisdictional...

BBC News 6 December 2010 Last updated at 06:26 ET A long list of key facilities around the world that the US describes as vital to its national security has been released by Wikileaks. In February 2009 the State Department asked all US missions abroad to list all installations whose loss...

BBC News 6 December 2010 Last updated at 12:36 ET The Swiss post office's bank, PostFinance, has frozen the accounts of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The whistle-blowing website says the freeze includes a defence fund and personal assets worth 31,000 euros. Wikileaks has published...

Ali Akbar Dareini And George Jahn, Associated Press – 1 hr 26 mins ago TEHRAN, Iran – Iran delivered a resolute message Sunday on the eve of talks with six world powers: We're mining our own uranium now, so there is no stopping our nuclear ambitions. The Islamic Republic said it has...

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Brad Pitt has told Sky News he has his sights set on a Christmas number one. The star does a bit of singing in his new film Megamind and reckons he could have a future in music, "maybe like Kylie Minogue". Speaking at the film's European premiere in Paris, Pitt, who was joined by his...

My comments in red or smilies LOL Sky News Dec 3 A treasure trove of more than 13,000 paintings owned by the nation is be shown for the first time in a public exhibition :eek: We own paintings? The Government Art Collection is one of the country's best-kept secrets, featuring works...

Sky News Dec 3 A criminal investigation has been launched at America's top military cemetery after the remains of eight people were found in a single grave marked 'unknown'. Records at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington showed there was only one set of cremated remains interred...

BBC News Dec 3 Last updated at 14:00 ET An anonymous buyer has bid $506,500 for a first edition copy of the "Star-Spangled Banner" poem, whose words were adopted for the US national anthem. It is the only first edition of the poem in private hands, and one of just 11 such manuscripts to...

BBC News Dec 3 Last updated at 18:26 ET The price of oil on both sides of the Atlantic has hit its highest level since the financial crisis. In Europe, Brent crude futures rose to $91.58 per barrel, while in the US, West Texas Intermediate hit $89.35 - the highest levels since October...

Sky News, Greg Milam, US correspondent A man opened fire on his television with a shotgun because he was so incensed by Sarah Palin's daughter's on-screen dancing Steven Cowan's actions - provoked by his view of Bristol Palin's performance on the popular celebrity dance show Dancing With...

BBC News US President Barack Obama has made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan. He was flown into Bagram airfield - home to a key US base - near Kabul. President Obama is expected to speak to American troops and hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the conflict with the...