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Assange fears he will be extradited from Sweden to the United States to face possible espionage charges, after releasing more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables on the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website.

Driver speeding at 130mph with hot drink between legs fined £1,000

A motorist has been fined £1,000 for driving at up to 130mph (210km/h) with a hot drink balanced between his legs.

Andrew Howie, 35, of Tiptree, Essex, was spotted driving his Mercedes Benz on the A120 at Braintree on 27 May.

When police stopped him they discovered the takeaway drink between his legs.

At Colchester Magistrates' Court Howie admitted a charge of driving without due care and attention.

Seven points added to his licence resulted in him receiving a six-month driving ban.

Howie was also ordered to pay costs of £90 and a victim surcharge of £100.

Tax on foreign property owners to burst London's bubble

The Treasury have provisionally costed out the CGT measure but are awaiting a final decision from Mr Osborne, who, in the 2012 Budget, introduced a 7% rate of stamp duty for homes costing more than £2m and annual charges for buyers who choose to hold homes in a company rather than as individuals.

Already the stamp duty take for residential property in the boroughs of Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea, which stood at £708 million in the 2012/13 tax year, exceeds the combined total for Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, the North East, North West and Yorkshire and the Humber put together.

Mr Cook said: "Following increases in stamp duty of high value homes and the introduction of associated anti-avoidance legislation, it is very difficult to argue that high value property is under-taxed irrespective of the effect of the out-dated council tax system."

But this move could make some foreign investors reticent to buy property in London or current owners reluctant to sell, he added.

Prime property - the top 5% to 10% of the housing market by price - in the affluent south-west London belt, which stretches from Fulham to Wimbledon, has increased by a record 11.8% over the past year.

Prices in central London continued to show steady year-on-year growth of 5.6% but were overshadowed by a burgeoning "domestic market" with the city's south west, north (7.4%) and east (6.5%) all experiencing an uptick, according to research from Savills.

Scientists have shed more light on how the movements of a dog's tail are linked to its mood.

Earlier research had revealed that happy dogs wag their tails more to the right (from the dog's point of view), while nervous dogs have a left-dominated swish.

But now scientists say that fellow canines can spot and respond to these subtle tail differences.

The study is published in the journal Current Biology.

Prof Georgio Vallortigara, a neuroscientist from the University of Trento, said: "It is very well known in humans that the left and right side of the brain are differently involved in stimuli that invokes positive or negative emotions."

Here we attempted to look at it in other species.

He added that just as in humans, for dogs the right side of the brain was responsible for left-handed movement and vice versa, and the two hemispheres played different roles in emotions.

To find out more about how dogs react to the lop-sided tail wags of other dogs, the researchers monitored the animals as they watched films of other dogs.

They measured the pets' heart rates and analysed their behaviour.

It will probably not be long before we understand why their tails sometimes go one way, sometimes the other

Prof Vallortigara said: "We presented dogs with movies of dogs - either a naturalistic version or a silhouette to get rid of any other confounding issues, and we could doctor the movement of the tail and present the tail more to the left or right."

When the animals saw an otherwise expressionless dog move its tail to the right (from the tail-wagging dog's point of view), they stayed perfectly relaxed.

But when they spotted a tail veer predominantly to the left (again from the tail-swishing dog's point of view), their heart rates picked up and they looked anxious.

Prof Vallortigara said he didn't think that the dogs were intentionally communicating with each other through these movements.

Instead, he believes that they dogs have learned from experience what moves they should and shouldn't feel worried about.

He said: "If you have several meetings with other dogs, and frequently their tail wagging one way is associated with a more friendly behaviour, and the right side is producing a less friendly behaviour, you respond on the basis of that experience."

The researchers say the findings could give owners, vets and trainers a better insight into their animal's emotions.

Dog behaviour expert John Bradshaw, a visiting fellow at the University of Bristol's school of veterinary science, said this was not the first study to examine whether left and right were important to canines.

Last year a team from the University of Lincoln found that dogs turn their heads to the left when looking at an aggressive dog and to the right when looking at a happy dog.

And in another research paper from the University of Victoria in Canada, he said: "Dogs were more likely to approach a robot dog when its 'tail' was made to wag left rather than right, rather than becoming anxious - the opposite way around to the Italian study."

He said the differences could be because the dogs in the different studies were not fully interpreting the animals in the films or robo-dogs as canines.

A study of how dogs responded to real dogs could help, he explained.

While there is considerable evidence from many different mammals that the two sides of the brain are used for different purposes, much of the detail still has to be hammered out - and dogs are no exception, he said.

However, given the ease with which their behaviour can be recorded, it will probably not be long before we understand why their tails sometimes go one way, sometimes the other.

Arctic Monkeys postpone Glasgow gig due to Alex Turner's illness

Rock band the Arctic Monkeys have postponed a gig in Glasgow after their lead singer was diagnosed with laryngitis.

The Sheffield group were scheduled to perform at the Hydro venue in the city on Friday.

However, lead singer Alex Turner's illness has forced them to reschedule the show.

The band's announcement came after they were forced to similarly postpone a gig at the LG Arena in Birmingham on Thursday.

In a statement on their official website, the Arctic Monkeys said: "Following the decision to postpone the show at the Birmingham LG Arena tonight and after seeking medical advice, Arctic Monkeys must also postpone the show at the Glasgow Hydro on Friday, November 1."

Alex Turner has been diagnosed with laryngitis and is regrettably not able to perform.

The show at the LG Arena in Birmingham will now take place on November 20 and the show at the Glasgow Hydro will now take place on November 21.

All tickets remain valid for these shows.

We wish to apologise to all ticket holders for any inconvenience this has caused.

Please contact the customer services at the box office you purchased your tickets from for any further assistance.

Pope Francis to name first cardinals in February

Pope Francis will create new cardinals of the Catholic Church for his first time on February 22, the Vatican announced Thursday.

Cardinals are the highest-ranking clergy in the Catholic Church below the pope, and they're the ones who elect popes, so Francis will be appointing his first group of men who will ultimately help choose his successor.

There are now 201 cardinals.

However, once a cardinal reaches 80 he is no longer permitted to participate in the election of a pope -- this falls to a group of 120 "cardinal electors."

In a statement announcing the news, Father Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, said a meeting of all the existing cardinals would be held before the ceremony to elevate the new cardinals, known as a consistory.

Pope Francis has decided to communicate his decision to convoke February's consistory in advance in order to facilitate the planning of other meetings involving the participation of cardinals from different parts of the world, Lombardi said.

Jack Valero of Catholic Voices said that by February, the number of cardinal electors was likely to have dropped.

He said usually a pope would name as many cardinals as was needed to raise the number of cardinal electors back to 120 and as many cardinals aged over 80 as he wanted.

Next year's consistory would be significant because it would be the first since Francis was elected in March this year, Valero said.

At the moment there is a sort of bias towards Europe and especially towards Italy.

It will be interesting to see whether the new Pope will nominate cardinals from the rest of the world to restore the balance, he said.

Forty percent of Roman Catholics are in South America, but they have a tiny number of cardinals.

The cardinals will also be the first to be chosen since Francis formed the Council of Cardinals, a group of eight cardinals from around the world tasked with looking into ways to reform the church.

In the past the Pope decided everything on his own.

Now Francis has selected these eight cardinals to help him, Valero said.

He said it was "quite possible" that Francis would ask the cardinals for advice.

But we've not been in that situation before -- it's all completely new.

Valero said popes typically elevated bishops from large places to the position of cardinal but that Francis was "full of surprises -- so we don't know who he'll name."

GM recalls some new pickup trucks in U.S. to fix seatbacks

General Motors Co is recalling nearly 19,000 of its all-new 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks to repair a problem with the manual reclining seatback, according to a notice from U.S. auto safety regulators on Friday.

On some of the trucks, the front seats may have a defect in the reclining mechanism.

As a result, the seatbacks fail to comply with federal auto safety standards on head restraints.

If the vehicle is struck from behind, the head restraint may not properly protect occupants, increasing the risk of injury, according to the notice posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website.

The recalled models were built between August 1 and September 10.

GM's truck roll-out began in June and represents the most important vehicle launch for the No. 1 U.S. automaker since its 2009 bankruptcy restructuring.

GM told truck owners about the defect in the first half of October.

NHTSA could not review the owner notification letter due to the 16-day government shutdown, which tempered auto sales growth in October.

Sales of the Silverado and Sierra trucks, which were redesigned for the 2014 model year, were up about 20 percent during the first 10 months of the year, GM said on Friday.

In October, GM sold 42,660 Silverado and 16,503 Sierra pickup trucks.

GM shares were up 1.4 percent at $37.47 on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday afternoon.

An Obama voter's cry of despair

I voted for President Obama twice, sharing hope in possibility of change

He says Obama has had worthy efforts thwarted by GOP obstructionism

Obstructionism can't excuse Obamacare website woes, drone attacks

Obama's 2008 campaign memoir is a sad reminder of what might have been

Nathaniel P. Morris is a second-year student at Harvard Medical School.

I'm reading a terribly sad book these days.

It's a book that I thought would uplift me during the doldrums of second-year medical school, and renew in me a sense of hope.

It's called "The Audacity to Win," and it's a memoir of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

When I'm finished with my patient write-ups at night and get into bed, the book returns me to a time when politics inspired millions and speeches could take your breath away.

The election turned out to be a landslide, and news anchors paused to reflect on the historic nature of the hour.

My classmates cried with joy, and my parents saved every newspaper they could find.

A young team of visionaries was headed for the White House, and the nation was ready for change.

During Obama's transition to office in 2008, he had an 82% approval rating.

And then I close the book.

Cutting to the present is a rude awakening, like snapping out of a dream.

It's hard to remember those days of optimism -- they seem a distant memory, a sad reminder of opportunities gone by.

Change indeed happened, in the years since I cast my first ballot.

It was simply nothing I could have imagined.