WikiLeaks says the group’s founder, Julian Assange, will run for a seat in the Australian Senate in elections due late next year despite facing criminal charges in Sweden.

ONE of the more intriguing files in the State papers opened this week concerned the appointment of Senator Vincent Gair as Australian ambassador to Ireland in 1974.

DR DEIRDRE Madden's view (Irish Examiner, Feb 3) echoes that of Baroness Warnock in Britain – that at the beginning of pregnancy one is dealing with a collection of cells. This is scientifically unsound.