WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian How many people had even heard of WikiLeaks a week ago? Or Julian Assange? And yet, seven days after the biggest intelligence leak of all time – the publication of over 75,000 files amounting to an entire history of the Afghanistan war – he is [...]

Alan Shadrake gives the victory sign as he arrives at court in Singapore. Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters Singapore’s long-serving administration has won some time to ponder how it will deal with yet another self-inflicted blow to its global branding. The reprieve came as a Singapore court today postponed a case against the British author Alan Shadrake [...]

Hospital is told not to resume surgery. Photograph: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images Surgery at the smallest children’s heart unit in England should remain “suspended until or unless the service can safely be expanded”, an independent review into the deaths of four babies at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford has concluded. The unit has been shut [...]