Animated comedy The Simpsons passes a major TV milestone with its 500th episode, guest starring Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

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Brazzers says no credit card information was leaked.

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Hacker Takes Down Porn Site

Financial regulators have built an elaborate computer apparatus to scan stock markets for signs of insider trading, but the radar isn’t pointed at Congress. Instead, it is designed to detect more conventional forms of insider trading — a corporate lawyer acting on advance word of a merger or an accountant leaking details about a company’s earnings. A senator who calls his broker after receiving a closed-door briefing might not even raise a blip. Read full article > >

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For SEC, investigating insider trading in Congress presents complications

Outlook bleak in Nevada.

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Gingrich Refuses to Drop Bid

The world economy is slowing sharply, and the euro region is headed for recession this year, the International Monetary Fund predicted Tuesday in a bleak update of global conditions. Overall, the world economy is expected to expand 3.25 percent in 2012 — down from the 4 percent projected by the IMF in the fall. Read full article > >

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IMF report: Global economy looks grim for 2012

The Justice Department on Monday charged a former CIA officer with repeatedly leaking classified information, including the identities of agency operatives involved in the capture and interrogation of alleged terrorists. Read full article > >

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Former CIA officer charged in alleged leaks

Germany’s Chancellor Merkel and France’s President Sarkozy hold their first eurozone crisis talks of 2012 as the outlook remains bleak.

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Euro crisis: Merkel meets Sarkozy

Hackers claiming to be part of Anonymous launch a Wikileaks-style site targeting the German far-right.

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Hackers take on German far-right

At first glance, the pizza-size hole that popped open when a heavy truck passed over a freshly paved District street seemed fairly minor. Then city inspectors got on their bellies with a flashlight to peer into it. What they discovered has become far too common. A massive 19th-century brick sewer had silently eroded away, leaving a cavern beneath a street in Adams Morgan that could have swallowed most of a Metro bus. Read full article > >

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Billions needed to upgrade America’s leaky water infrastructure

MOSCOW — A major fire aboard a docked Russian nuclear submarine that overwhelmed seven crew members with toxic fumes and left others stuck inside was extinguished Friday and caused no radiation leaks, officials said. Firefighters continued to spray the vessel with water to cool it down, Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu said. The fire broke out Thursday at an Arctic shipyard outside the northwestern Russian city of Murmansk where the submarine Yekaterinburg was in drydock. Read full article > >

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Fire at Russian nuclear sub injures 7; officials say no radiation leak

Military prosecutors presented new and detailed evidence Thursday that they said showed that Pfc. Bradley Manning collaborated with Julian Assange, the founder of the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks, in stealing more than 700,000 documents from classified computer systems and publishing them on the Internet. Read full article > >

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Current defense springs leaks.

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Ron Paul Liked His Newsletter in 1995

WikiLeaks suspect doesn’t claim innocence.

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Manning Defense Makes Final Pitch

Lawyers defending a US soldier accused of handing government secrets to Wikileaks say his supervisors failed to recognise his troubled emotional state.

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Army ‘failed’ in Wikileaks case

The Home Office says it is doing all it can to speed up the deportation of foreign criminals after a report on re-offending is leaked.

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Home Office defends deportations