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Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, will address the United Nations annual General Assembly on Wednesday alongside Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino to garner support to prevent his extradition to Sweden where he is being accused of rape and sex crimes. The Ecuador mission to the United Nations confirmed the news on Tuesday to the Associated Press.

Anna Gristina, who better known in the media as the notorious “Soccer Mom Madam,” plead guilty on one count of promoting prostitution in a Manhattan court on Tuesday.

He is loathed in the West and weakened at home, but Iran's outspoken president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems intent on raising hackles one more time during his last official visit to the United Nations this week.