Breaking! - Assange Free

Speaking on the steps of the High Court to dozens of journalists, Mr Assange said: "It's great to feel the fresh air of London again."

He went on to thank "all the people around the world who had faith" in him, his lawyers, and anonymous for putting up a "brave and ultimately successful fight", members of the press and blogosphere, and the British justice system.

"If justice is not always an outcome, at least it is not dead yet," he quipped.

Mr Assange had spent the past eight nights alone in prison. He told the press he had been kept in solitary confinement in the depths of a Victorian prison.