The US government is being accused of seeking to win the right to order Twitter to hand over private account details, as the WikiLeaks row continues to escalate. Read the full story

Lawyers of Julian Assange have claimed that the WikiLeaks figurehead will be at a “real risk” of the death penalty or detention in Guantánamo Bay if he is extradited to Sweden over accusations of rape and sexual assault. Read the full story

The Guardian will reveal the details of its relationship with WikiLeaks in a book to be published next month. Read the full story

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange has struck out at the Guardian, calling an article published in the paper referring to Assange’s trial on rape charges as “disgusting”. Read the full story

In what is considered a first for the English court system, journalists were allowed to tweet proceedings onto the internet while WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange found out if he was to be granted bail for his accusations of rape. Read the full story

A Guardian journalist has criticised the Times for giving exposure to a WikiLeaks document the former paper deemed too sensitive to publish. Read the full story

Splits in the WikiLeaks group have emerged in the wake of its latest leak. Read the full story

A press freedom group has hit out at the publication of the leaked Afghanistan war logs. Read the full story