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Britain’s Supreme Court has upheld the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Sweden to face questioning over alleged sex crimes. Assange’s lawyers had argued that the Swedish public prosecutor did not have the legal authority to issue the arrest warrant, but the British justices disagreed in a 5-to-2 decision. Assange’s attorneys will have 14 days to file a new appeal. We get reaction from Salon.com blogger and constitutional law attorney Glenn Greenwald.

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British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife mistakenly left their eight-year-old daughter behind following lunch at a country pub recently.“The PM and wife Samantha were distraught when they realised Nancy wasn’t with them,” his office confirmed in a statement, according to British media.

“Thankfully when they phoned the pub, she was there safe and well.

“The PM went down straight away to get her.”

Following a pitched court battle, the British Foreign Office has been forced to release seven previously “redacted” paragraphs regarding allegations of mistreatment by former Gitmo detainee Binyam Mohamed. The paragraphs were part of a CIA document shared with the British government about Mohamed’s status. The rest of the document had previously been released.

Hundreds of Somali soldiers trained with US funding have deserted, with some crossing over to the al-Qaida-linked militants they are supposed to be fighting, it emerged today.

The troops, backed with millions of US dollars, are leaving the ranks because they are not receiving their $100 (£65) monthly wage. The desertions raise fears that an American-backed drive next month to strengthen Somalia's army may increase the ranks of the insurgency.

A BRITISH man refused entry into the UK because he put on 31.8 kilograms (70 pounds) was considering taking legal action against border officials.

Border control authorities barred Derrick Agyeman, 37, from returning to the UK after he spent a weekend with friends in Amsterdam

I'd rather recruit ex-drug dealers, convicts and even child molesters rather than consider anybody who has been in the pay of the British Government.

British bloggers rally around jailed anti-smoking-ban activist Nick Hogan. Imprisoned for six months, pending a £10,000 fine, for simply holding a "smoke-in" at his pub, the UK libertarian community has quickly been raising the funds so he can be released.

The admission by London's police force that their officers horrifically assaulted a defenseless Muslim man was one of the blackest moments in recent British police history. On Wednesday, the Metropolitan police agreed to pay Babar Ahmad £60,000 as well as his legal costs in compensation for the brutal beating their officers gave him.