Assange ditches lawyer as rape probe rumbles on

Twitter - the platform where social media meets microblogging, has added new feature to its site - Twitter Stories. Built in the same line as Facebook Stories, the new feature will give some insight to how the site can...

Controversial whistleblowing website Wikileaks has announced it will release thousands of previously unpublished secret US diplomatic cables.Wikileaks founder Julian Assange tweeted that the website will release more than 100,000...

MPs in the House of Commons  have been banned from using Twitter while sitting in Chamber. Deputy Speaker Lindsay Hoyle made the ruling on the spot after a complaint from Labour MP Kevin Brennan, who was miffed that...

A group of European MPs will today push EU bosses to say if the US government breached European privacy laws by snooping on Twitter users with links to whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for...

The lawyer representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Mark Stephens, has slammed the US Department of Justice's order that Twitter should disclose data on the website's supporters. The claim comes after it was discovered...

US courts have issued a subpoena to Twitter, demanding it hand over the details of people connected to WikiLeaks, court documents have revealed. The US government is contacting Internet companies and social networking websites...

The US justice department has told Twitter to hand over all details it possesses concerning the accounts of a number of WikiLeaks members and supporters. Investigators want to have a trawl through Julian Assange's private...

Twitter and other text-based communication can be used in UK courts, the Lord Chief Justice for England and Wales has ruled.Lord Judge said that live text updates would be allowed from courts with the presiding judge's...

Bank of America said it has stopped handling payments for Wikileaks, the web site which upset the the U.S. government by exposing hundreds of thousands of once-secret cables sent between embassies over the past few...

Michael Moore heads up a list of the great and good who have pledged their cash to see WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released on bail. The US documentary maker, famous for films inlcuding Bowling For Columbine, Sicko and...

The judge at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's court hearing today has taken the extraordinary step of allowing journalists to 'tweet' proceedings from the court on micro-blogging site Twitter, according to a reporter at the...

Micro-blogging giant Twitter has released the list of the top trending topics on the platform for the year with Apple's iPad being amongst the most popular subjects. According to The Guardian, the Gulf oil spill, FIFA World Cup...

Twitter could become the next target for pro-WikiLeaks hacking 'group' Anonymous as part of its ongoing 'Operation: Payback'. The 'hacktivists' declared their intention to attack the micro-blogging site in a post on 4chan, the...

Hacktivist group Anonymous is claiming to have taken down the Mastercard website in response to the company pulling its services from WikiLeaks.Making the announcement on the Anon_Operation twitter account, the group said that...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has blasted plans by a group of Chinese activists to launch their own copycat version of the whistle-blowing site, according to business magazine Forbes. The publication reports that in an...