SPB News for Monday

18 US troops with swine flu flown out of Kuwait

Gay US diplomats to get full benefits for partners

Gore to CEOs: Back climate deal

At climate change summit, says 'nature doesn't do bailouts.

Reborn: Circuit City reopens online

U.S. holds journalist without charges in Iraq --Reuters cameraman Ibrahim Jassam has been held since September. The U.S. military rejected a court order to release him, saying he is a 'high security threat.' The soldiers rifled through the house, confiscating Ibrahim Jassam's computer hard drive and cameras. And then they led him away, handcuffed and blindfolded. That was Sept. 2. Jassam, 31, has been in U.S. custody ever since. No formal accusations have been made against Jassam, and an Iraqi court ordered in November that he be released for lack of evidence. But the U.S. military continues to hold him, saying it has intelligence that he is "a high security threat," said Maj. Neal Fisher, spokesman for detainee affairs.

Legal fight for release of terror documents --The US had stressed that that disclosure could result in "serious damage to UK and US national security". The High Court was urged today to order full disclosure of correspondence from America setting out the Obama administration's current stance on whether US intelligence outlining its agents' treatment of former terror detainee Binyam Mohamed should be made public... The FCO announced that the Obama administration remained opposed to disclosure of the information by a British court.

'Leaks have exposed Parliament's rotten core.'

Ex-SAS officer is expenses whistleblower --Mr Wick passed over more than one million pages of unedited receipts to the Telegraph. A former SAS officer who passed secret details of MPs’ expenses claims to The Daily Telegraph broke cover last night to insist he had “no regrets” about the leak that has rocked Westminster. John Wick said the release of the information over the last fortnight had exposed the parliamentary expenses system to "its rotten core". Mr Wick, the head of a corporate intelligence company specialising in the release of hostages in war zones, was named as an intermediary between an anonymous parliamentary source and the Telegraph.

Last week poll had asked:

President Obama has announced that trials will restart in Guantanamo. Is this the right decision? The majority of readers answered yes. New poll is now up.