December 7, 2010
Obama reaches deal with Republicans over tax cuts
US President Barack Obama has announced a bipartisan agreement has been reached to extend soon-to-expire Bush era tax cuts to all Americans. Referring to the bitter wrangling over the issue, Mr Obama said he would not "let working families become…
December 7, 2010
Wikileaks: Swiss bank freezes Julian Assange’s account
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 hundreds of…