A US military court of appeals on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by journalists and a rights group seeking greater openness in the upcoming trial of WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning. The Center for Constitutional Rights filed the suit asking the court to compel the trial judge to expand access to court documents and transcripts, saying much of the pre-trial proceedings were carried out in secret.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is holed up in the Ecuador's embassy in London, gave an upbeat assessment late Thursday to his chances of winning a seat in Australia's Senate. Assange, speaking by telephone to the US premiere of "Underground," an Australian film on his early hacking days, cited an opinion poll that gave him 27 percent voting intentions ahead of the election on September 14.

The US government must prove that Bradley Manning knowingly helped Al-Qaeda by leaking secret documents to WikiLeaks in order to convict him of "aiding the enemy," a judge ruled Wednesday. The ruling by Judge Denise Lind at a preliminary hearing raises the bar for convicting Manning -- who has admitted leaking the documents but denied aiding the enemy -- of the most serious charge he faces.

Whistleblowing group WikiLeaks unveiled plans Saturday to field candidates in at least three states in Australia’s elections and said it would be “embarrassing” if Julian Assange won but couldn’t take his seat. Assange, Australian-born founder of the controversial WikiLeaks site, announced that he would run for the Senate last year and is pushing ahead with the plan despite being holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since June. Greg Barns, a lawyer who is Assange’s newly-appointed campaign director, said the WikiLeaks Party had secured candidates to run in at least thre