Wikileaks: the claims

According to newspaper websites, the classified US Government documents released by WikiLeaks include claims of:

- "Inappropriate behaviour" by a member of the Royal Family.

- Requests for "specific intelligence" about British MPs.

- "Devastating" criticisms of British operations in Iraq.

- "Serious political criticisms" of Prime Minister David Cameron.

- US diplomats pressuring countries to resettle former Guantanamo detainees.

- "Grave fears" in London and Washington over the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme.

- "Harsh" criticism by US embassy staff of their host governments, including Russia and China.

- Alleged links between the Russian government and organised crime.

- Details of countries involved in financing terrorist groups.

- Reports of a near environmental "disaster" involving a rogue shipment of enriched uranium.

- Technical details of secret US-Russian nuclear missile negotiations in Geneva.

- Secret US efforts to combat al-Qaeda in Yemen.

- A description of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is said to be accompanied everywhere by a "voluptuous blonde" Ukrainian nurse.

- Reports that the King of Bahrein and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia urged the Americans to take military action to halt Iran's nuclear programme.

- US assessments that Iran has obtained advanced missiles from North Korea that could enable it to strike European capitals.

- Secret - and so far unsuccessful - US efforts to remove highly enriched uranium from a Pakistani research reactor amid fears it could be diverted for use in an illegal nuclear device.

- Conversations between American and South Korean officials over the prospects for a unified Korea, should the North's economic troubles and political transition lead it to "implode".

- A global campaign of computer sabotage by Chinese government agents.