Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been freed in the UK after agreeing to plead guilty to conspiracy charges brought against him by the United States. Assange – who has spent the past five years in a British super-max battling against extradition to the US to face trial for the leak of classified government files – is set to return to his native Australia once he’s appeared in a US federal court this week to enter a guilty plea.

Source: The Register