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WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange ArrestedWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested early Tuesday on suspicion of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion in Sweden. 

Assange, 39, met police in London after days of speculation following the accusations. Assange, an Australian national, has reportedly been hiding in the U.K. since the avalanche of hundreds of thousands of documents detailing diplomatic cables had been leaked via his Web site. 

He is due to appear at City of Westminster Magistrate's Court Tuesday. 

A spokesman based at Scotland Yard confirmed in a statement to PEOPLE that officers from the Metropolitan Police "extradition unit" arrested Assange "on behalf of the Swedish authorities on suspicion of rape." 

The charges were initially made by two women Assange had met in Sweden during a business trip to the country. Initially dropped, the case was reopened and an appeals court has upheld the original accusations. Assange now faces possible extradition. 

The statement continued, "Julian Assange, 39, was arrested on a European Arrest Warrant by appointment at a London police station at 9:30 a.m. He's accused by the Swedish authorities of one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape, all alleged to have been committed in August 2010." 

Assange's lawyer's office was not taking calls early Tuesday. But the BBCquoted his lawyer, Mark Stephens, as saying that he was looking to get some "truth, justice." He added, "Julian Assange has been the one in hot pursuit to vindicate himself to clear his good name." 


Assange making arrangements to meet police, lawyer saysWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is "in the process of making arrangements" to meet with British police regarding a Swedish arrest warrant, his attorney said Monday.
Assange is wanted for questioning by Swedish authorities over sex-crime allegations unrelated to WikiLeaks' recent disclosure of secret U.S. documents. Mark Stephens, his British lawyer, told the BBC no time had been set for the meeting as of Monday evening, but one is likely "in the foreseeable future."
"We are in the process of making arrangements to meet with the police by consent in order to facilitate the taking of that question-and-answer as needed," Stephens said.

Dane Cook's half-brother and sister-in-law admitted to stealing from him while managing his business.Dane Cook's half-brother and sister-in-law admitted to stealing from him while managing his business.Dane Cook's half-brother and sister-in-law must repay the comedian $12 million they admitted to stealing while managing Cook's business, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Attorney General said.
Darryl McCauley, who was Cook's business manager from the early 1990s until 1998, pleaded guilty to larceny, embezzlement and forgery charges in October. His wife, Erika McCauley, pleaded guilty to larceny charges.
"For several years, Mr. McCauley abused his position as a family member to gain Mr. Cook's trust, and stole millions of dollars for his own personal gain," Attorney General Martha Coakley said after his sentencing.
He was sentenced to six years in prison and 16 years probation, while she got three years in prison and 13 years probation.
Erika McCauly, 35, will be in a Woburn, Massachusetts court Friday for a hearing on the status of the restitution payments and Darryl McCauley, 43, will have a hearing next week, according to Harry Pierre, Coakley's spokesman.
The investigation began in December 2008 when Cook and his lawyer called police to alert them to the missing millions, according to Coakley's spokesman.
McCauley, who kept Cook's financial books and managed his financial affairs, was accused of transferring millions of dollars from Cook's business accounts into his own personal accounts through checks and wire transfers, Pierre said.
One such forged check was for $3 million, he said.

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WikiLeaks (whose founder, Julian Assange, is pictured above) has published a secret U.S. diplomatic cable listing places the United States considers vital to its national security, prompting criticism that the website is inviting terrorist attacks on American interests.
Elizabeth Edwards stops cancer treatments: Elizabeth Edwards was surrounded by family members and friends in her North Carolina home after being informed by her doctors that further cancer treatment would be unproductive.
Officials: Bodies of U.S. balloonists found: Fishermen found the bodies believed to be two missing American balloonists deep underwater off the coast of Italy early Monday morning, port officials said.
Continental Airlines, mechanic found guilty in fatal Concorde crash: The fiery crash that brought down a Concorde supersonic jet in 2000, killing 113 people, was caused partially by the criminal negligence of Continental Airlines and a mechanic who works for the company, a French court ruled Monday.
Monday Night Football legend 'Dandy Don' Meredith dies: Don Meredith, an all-pro quarterback who made his greatest impact on the game after he finished playing, died Sunday at a Santa Fe, New Mexico, hospital, according to a spokesman. Meredith was 72.

Many older men sexually satisfied in 70s, 80s, even 90sFile this in the "age isn't anything but a number" category:  Older men enjoy a satisfying sex life well in to their golden years, finds a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Researchers surveyed about 2,800 men in Australia, ages 75 to 95, and found a third of them had at least one sexual encounter with a partner in the last year.  56 percent of those men reported satisfying sex lives.  Sex was considered to be a "somewhat important" part of life for 48 percent of the respondents, including men ages 90 to 95.
"Sexuality is an innate component of our make-up as human beings," says Michael Reece, Director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University, who was not affiliated with the study. "We're sexual beings from birth until death."
The study did find that sexual activity decreased with age; study participants in their 70s had more sex than their peers in their 90s. Indeed, medical factors including decreased testosterone levels, prostate cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and depression were all associated with an absence of sexual activity among the men surveyed.
Plus, social factors such as having a partner who is not interested in sex, or not having a partner at all, were also found to limit a person's prospects for sex later in life.
"Men who have partners versus the ones who do not usually have a much different sexual profile and a much happier one," says Pepper Schwartz, the Sexuality, Love and Relationship Ambassador for the AARP. "Access is the issue, not desire."
The annals study affirms what Reece and his team discovered back in October after looking in to the sexual behaviors of older Americans. In a study funded by Church and Dwight, the company that makes Trojan condoms, they found that as many as 30 percent of Americans were sexually active in to their 80s. Both studies are part of a growing body of research looking at sex in a population often overlooked or thought of as asexual.
"As a society we don't really endorse the idea of older people looking for or finding sexual partners," says Reece.
Schwartz agrees and says an older person wanting to develop a sex life should feel empowered to start a new relationship.
"The hardest person to seduce is yourself," says Schwartz. "You have to get in to the right mindset, get over yourself and think that you are desirable. And once you do that... someone else will think that too."

bernanke_60_mins.top.jpgOn the heels of a disappointing jobs report, the country's top economist told 60 Minutes the outlook isn't much brighter.
"At the rate we're going, it could be four, five years before we are back to a more normal unemployment rate," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told 60 Minutes in an interview that aired Sunday night.The 60 Minutes broadcast comes just a couple days after the government released a jobs report bringing two downbeat surprises: the economy added only 39,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate rose to 9.8%.
Stubbornly high unemployment is one reason Bernanke is standing by the Fed's recent controversial decision to initiate a $600 billion bond-buying program, its second round of so-called quantitative easing or QE2. It is meant to stimulate the economy by keeping interest rates low and encouraging consumers to spend more and businesses to create jobs.
But the plan has drawn a major backlash from both conservatives andglobal leaders over the past month. Critics argue the policy of low interest rates will feed long-term inflation, artificially devalue the dollar and create asset bubbles.
While Bernanke doesn't address all those topics in the interview, he does stand strong against his critics in three main ways.
He says long-term inflation fears are "way overstated," and the Fed is not just "printing money." Plus, while critics are pointing out QE2's risks left and right, they are not weighing the risks of "not acting," Bernanke said.
Responding to a question about the possibility of additional quantitative easing, Bernanke said: "Oh, it's certainly possible. And again, it depends on the efficacy of the program. It depends on inflation. And finally it depends on how the economy looks." He added that it "doesn't seem likely" that there will be a double-dip recession.
Bernanke also said he's "100%" confident in the Fed's ability to control long-term inflation. "We could raise interest rates in 15 minutes if we have to," he said. "That time is not now."
As Congress debates extending the Bush tax cuts and implementing budget cuts to slash the national deficit, Bernanke also stressed the importance of Congress and the White House doing more to help the recovery.
While the Federal Reserve can help the economy through monetary policy -- keeping interest rates low -- decisions on taxes and spending, or so-called fiscal policy, are left up to lawmakers.
"We don't want to take actions this year that will affect this year's spending and this year's taxes in a way that will hurt the recovery. That's important," Bernanke said. "But that doesn't stop us from thinking now about the long-term structural budget deficit."
He also called the tax code "inefficient."
"By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest," he said.
Bernanke last appeared on 60 Minutes in March 2009 to defend the government's actions during the financial crisis, including its decision to let Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers fail while at the same time stepping in to save insurance giant American International Group.
Television interviews with the chairman are rare, and his second 60 Minutes appearance seems to mark the Fed's efforts to communicate its reasons behind QE2 more clearly to the public. Bernanke also took towriting an op-ed in the Washington Post last month, to defend the bank's decision. To top of page


The discovery of hard plastic inside packages prompted a nationwide recall of 72,000 pounds of canned chicken salad, one of several recalls involving poultry and meat products issued through U.S. food safety authorities in recent days.
The Suter Company is recalling 8.2-ounce packages of the "Bumble Bee Lunch on the Run Chicken Salad Complete Lunch Kit" and 3.5-ounce packages of "Bumble Bee Chicken Salad with Crackers," according to a statement released Sunday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
While the company is headquartered in Sycamore, Illinois, its products are sold from coast to coast. The recalled products -- which have a August 2011 "best-by" date for the lunch kit, and February 2012 corresponding date for the cracker package -- were put together and shipped out to distributors and stores between August 14 and 28 of this year.
The recall was prompted by complaints from people who found pieces of loose plastic inside their Bumble Bee packages. The federal agency noted in its release that it hasn't received any reports of people getting hurt or sick as a result.
The recall is a Class II, which means there is a "remote probability of adverse health consequences," according to the Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Meanwhile, two unrelated and separate but potentially more dangerous recalls announced late last week were categorized as Class I, equating to a "reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death."
Federal food safety authorities said Friday that Diana's Mexican Food Products, of Lawndale, California, is recalling 41,670 pounds of chicken tamales.
The tamales contain whey, a known allergen. But the packages don't note the whey on its labels, said the Food Safety and Inspection Service, potentially imperiling consumers.
The tamales, which went out to restaurants in California, were produced between February and December 2, 2010. There are no known reports of adverse reactions to the undeclared presence of whey, which was discovered by federal authorities in a "routine inspection."
One day earlier, Brooklyn-based N.Y. Gourmet Salads recalled various meat and poultry products because, prior to their distribution, they hadn't been inspected by federal health inspectors.
While there have been no reports of sicknesses, a public health alert was issued October 30 for a host of Gourmet Salad's products packaged between March 11 and October 29 of this year. The recall list includes 12 items -- ranging from Swedish meatballs to stuffed cabbage to grilled chicken -- all wrapped in 4.5-, 5- and 6-pound packages.


Nigeria's military, shown here earlier this year, has clashed frequently with militant groups over the oil-rich Niger Delta.The Nigerian military acknowledged Sunday that civilians may have been "caught in the crossfire" last week during an operation to root out criminal gangs in the country's Delta State.
The armed forces began an offensive targeting alleged militant leader John Togo on Wednesday, attacking rebel camps near the village of Ayakoromo and dislodging some militants who had sought refuge in villagers' homes.
The targeted group -- the Niger Delta Liberation Force -- has accused the military of large-scale massacre and rape in the village and surrounding areas, allegations that military spokesman Timothy Antigha called "completely false."
"It is possible a few civilians were caught in the crossfire," Antigha, a spokesman for the military's Joint Task Force, which was formed to combat rebels, said Sunday.
A local official said he saw at least 10 villagers' bodies among the casualties.
The task force released a statement Saturday saying "there is no evidence on the ground to justify any claim of genocide against the JTF."
The statement acknowledged that buildings near the targeted camps became involved in the crossfire when fleeing militants took them over and exchanged gunfire with security forces.
"It is an established practice that civilian accommodation, offices, churches, mosques, hospitals, cultural places, shrines are non-military targets, but if they are used to stage an attack, such civilian accommodation or office automatically loses that immunity and becomes a military target," the statement said.
As many as six soldiers were killed in the operation, Antigha said, and about 100 people were displaced.
The operation has been suspended while the military assists affected residents, he said.
The oil-rich Niger Delta has been the site of frequent clashes between militant groups and the Nigerian military.
One of the most prominent rebel groups, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, and other militant groups say they're fighting for a fairer distribution of the region's oil wealth. Analysts say they are often paid by politicians to support their own bid for power.


Superfluous (su-PER-flu-us): Adjective. Unnecessary or needless; difficult to pronounce for a president with a split lip.
President Barack Obama grappled with the word Sunday evening at a White House event for this year's Kennedy Center honorees as he read from an opinion by legendary Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
"It's this lip. It's hard to say," Obama said to chuckles from the audience. "You try it when you've had 12 stitches."
Obama got a dozen stitches in his lip after being elbowed during a pickup basketball game the day after Thanksgiving. He received applause from the crowd when he finally managed to pronounce the word, included in a 1926 dissent from Holmes in defense of the arts.
"To many people, the superfluous is necessary," Holmes wrote. "The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary. They are a necessary part of our lives."
To that, Obama added, "The men and women here to night embody that idea. Tonight it is my honor to offer them the appreciation of a grateful nation."
This year's Kennedy Center honorees include country-and-western singer-songwriter Merle Haggard; ex-Beatle Paul McCartney; veteran Broadway composer Jerry Herman; dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones; and television host and actress Oprah Winfrey, a fellow Chicagoan and an early Obama supporter.
At a reception in the East Room of the White House prior to the awards ceremony, the president applauded this year's honorees.
"Each of these honorees help us understand the human experience -- to illuminate our past, to help us understand our present, and to give us the courage to face our future," said Obama.
While the president spoke of each honoree's accomplishments, he used a single sentence to sum up his take on the reigning queen of daytime talk: "Michelle and I love Oprah."
Among the president's guests were celebrities including actress Julia Roberts, Winfrey's friend Gail King, actors Alec Baldwin and Jeff Bridges and singer and former Kennedy Center honoree Diana Ross.


A suicide bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan killed two NATO troops and injured 18 others, NATO and Afghan officials said Sunday.
Rohulla Samon, spokesman for the governor of Paktia province, said the blast occurred around 1:30 p.m. Three foreigners and 13 Afghan civilians were among those injured, he said.
Samon described the blast as an improvised explosive device, but according to a NATO news release, it was a suicide blast.
Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi said the explosion, near a NATO military base, injured five Afghan soldiers and some civilians.
It took place in a small local carpet market, he said.


Russia's space agency is investigating the failed launch of three navigational satellites, the agency reported Sunday.
The satellites were meant to complete the Russian GLONASS satellite navigation system. But they went into a "non-targeted orbit" following their launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday afternoon, the Federal Space Agency reported.
"A special Board has been established to find out the cause of the contingency and to define next steps," the agency said in a public statement.
No further information was immediately available. The Russian news agency RIA-Novosti, citing unnamed officials, reported that the satellites crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii, but U.S. military and Coast Guard said they could not confirm that report.
The satellites were launched aboard a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur about 3:25 p.m. Sunday (7:25 a.m. ET) and were slated to be fully operational in about six weeks. GLONASS is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System network, and Sunday's launch would have brought the network up to its full strength of 26 satellites.

zuckerberg_stahl.top.jpgYour personal Facebook page is about to get a major revamp. Facebook on Sunday began rolling out a new design for members' profile pages, integrating in one place information currently scattered throughout the Wall, photo albums and other sections of the site.
The overhaul, to be previewed Sunday night on 60 Minutes, aims to transform what's now a jumbled collection of details into a streamlined window into who you are and what you're up to. A new "bio" space at the top offers a quick overview, and a more-prominent photo section spotlights images you've recently posted and photos of you tagged by your friends.Another new feature pulls up a history of your relationship with any of your Facebook friends, showing details like comments you've exchanged and events you've attended together. It's an expansion of a feature Facebook launched in late October.
"You can see all the things that you have in common with that person," Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told 60 Minutesinterviewer Lesley Stahl. "It gives you this amazing connection with that person in a way that the current version of the profile that we have today just doesn't do."
The new design will roll out gradually and reach all users by early next year, Facebook said Sunday in a blog post describing the changes. Those who want to upgrade immediately can do so athttp://www.facebook.com/about/profile/.
Zuckerberg's wide-ranging 60 Minutes interview touched on a number of Facebook's hot-button issues, including the frequent flare-ups around how it handles private data. A Wall Street Journal investigation two months ago illustrated that many of Facebook's most popular applications transmit personally identifying information on their users to advertising and tracking companies -- a violation of Facebook's policies, but one it does little to police.
Pressed on that point by Stahl, Zuckerberg fell back on the "it's against our polices" defense. Facebook shuts down the applications it catches violating those rules, he said.
Regulators and lawmakers are growing more concerned about how companies like Facebook guard their users' privacy, and are considering new rules and mandates. It's an area where Zuckerberg acknowledges having made mistakes: "Do we get it right all the time? No! But it's something that we take really seriously, and every day we come to work and just try to do a good job on this."
No phone -- and no IPO news: Zuckerberg flatly denied one persistent Facebook rumor: The company has no plans for a Facebook-branded phone, he said. Instead, it's working on software to run on all phones.
He also struck a deeply skeptical tone about the value of going public. Asked if Facebook will ever have an IPO, he answered: "Maybe."
"Here's the way that I think about it. A lot of people who, I think, build startups or companies think that selling the company or going public is this endpoint. Right, it's like you win when you go public," Zuckerberg said. "And that's just not how I see it."
Zuckerberg often acknowledges his missteps, but there's one major decision he thinks history has proven him right on.
"We had this opportunity to sell the company to Yahoo for a billion dollars. And we turned that down. I think a lot of people at the time thought we should sell the company," he said. "But you know, I felt really strongly. And I -- I think, like, now, people generally think that that was a good decision."

A picture released by the Egyptian ministry of environment on Thursday shows a shark believed to be behind an attack on tourists in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh last week. Another shark is being hunted in a Sunday attack.

A German woman died Sunday after being attacked by a shark in waters off Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in an area where three snorkelers were injured and two sharks were caught last week, officials said.
Egypt's tourism ministry has decided to close the Sharm el-Sheikh beach until the shark responsible for Sunday's attack is found, according to the nation's Interior Ministry.
Jochen Van Lysebettens, general operations manager of the Red Sea Diving College in Sharm el-Sheikh, said employees at the Hyatt Regency resort told him the attack happened about noon (5 a.m. ET) in a protected swim area off the resort. Van Lysebettens has three dive-instruction operations in the area, including one at the Hyatt Regency.
The 70-year-old woman, a regular guest at the resort, was snorkeling near a reef when she was attacked, he said. She called for help, and a lifeguard brought her to shore, but she had lost too much blood and resuscitation efforts failed, Van Lysebettens said. The woman's arm and leg were severed, he said.
After the Sunday incident, the Chamber of Diving and Watersports called on its members in the region "to stop any snorkeling activities happening from any boats or shore." The chamber is under the umbrella of the Egyptian Tourist Federation.
Van Lysebettens said all tourists were ordered to stay out of the water at least through Monday. The dive community is organizing volunteer expeditions to find the shark, he said, and about 40 people will search Monday.
On Friday, two sharks were caught and killed near the South Sinai National Park on the Sharm el-Sheikh coast, according to the Chamber of Diving and Watersports.
The chamber said that as of Friday, the condition of three injured snorkelers -- two Russian women and a man from the Ukraine -- were unchanged. One of them was critical, the chamber said in a statement, but did not say which one. The three were attacked in a 24-hour period November 30 and December 1, the chamber said.
Van Lysebettens said he is not a marine biologist, but many have speculated an oceanic white-tipped shark was responsible for the German woman's death, as well as the other attacks. Divers are upset because the two sharks killed Friday are thought to be innocent. They were a mako shark and another oceanic white-tipped shark -- which did not match pictures taken by someone accompanying one of the injured snorkelers, he said.
Officials at the national park did not provide details on "why the animals could not be relocated to remote waters as was previously suggested," the chamber's statement said, adding it "does not wish to see any harm to any further sharks."
Exploratory dives were taking place on Friday, Van Lysebettens said.
Officials are not sure what triggered the feeding behavior, described as highly unusual.
"This incident has clearly shocked our community, and the CDWS is continuing its investigation into why this may have happened," Hesham Gabr, head of the Chamber of Diving and Watersports, said in the statement. "It is clear from our initial discussions with shark behavioral experts that this highly unusual spate of attacks by an oceanic white tip shark was triggered by an activity, most probably illegal fishing or feeding in the area."
Several divers in the area saw carcasses of dead sheep in the water last week, Van Lysebettens said. It's not known how they got there, he said, but they could have washed out to sea or fallen off a boat. The shark may have been attracted by the carcass, he said, and could now be attacking slow-moving things on the water's surface.