John F Burns Ravi Somaiya New York Times

• WikiLeaks founder back in court to challenge extradition

  Facing his most crucial legal battle so far, Julian Assange, the founder of the antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks, appeared on Monday at a hearing to decide whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face accusations of sexual abuse. The two-day hearing, which began with detailed procedural arguments at Woolwich Crown Court, was the culmination of...

• Hackers attack those seen as WikiLeaks enemies

  In a campaign that had some declaring the start of a "cyberwar," hundreds of Internet activists mounted retaliatory attacks on Wednesday on the Web sites of multinational companies and other organizations they deemed hostile to the WikiLeaks antisecrecy organization and its jailed founder, Julian Assange. Within 12 hours of a British judge's decisi...

• WikiLeaks' Julian Assange denied bail, remanded to custody in UK

  After months of posting troves of classified American documents on the Internet, Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks Web site, surrendered to British authorities and was jailed on Tuesday after a judge reviewing a Swedish extradition request found him to be a flight risk and denied him bail. (Read: WikiLeaks founder Assange arrested) For Mr. ...

• WikiLeaks founder on the run, chased by turmoil

  Julian Assange moves like a hunted man. In a noisy Ethiopian restaurant in London's rundown Paddington district, he pitches his voice barely above a whisper to foil the Western intelligence agencies he fears.He demands that his dwindling number of loyalists use expensive encrypted cellphones and swaps his own as other men change shirts. He checks i...