WikiLeaks American domain name system provider, EveryDNS, has withdrawn service to the wikileaks.org name after the secret-spilling website once again became the target of hacker attacks.

Peruvian-born writer and one-time presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa, who has chronicled struggles for power, won the 2010 Nobel prize for literature, the awarding committee said on Thursday. The committee said in a statement Vargas Llosa received the award “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat”.

The Swedish Academy has selected the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature and will announce the decision next week after a formal vote, the panel’s spokesman said on Friday.

A plane carrying 273 people bound from Canada for Pakistan landed on Saturday at Stockholm's Arlanda airport because of a bomb threat on board, airport and police officials said.

Sweden’s ruling centre-right coalition won the most votes in a parliamentary election but fell short of a majority, final results showed on Monday, as the anti-immigrant far-right entered a hung house