The widow of Alexander Litvinenko won a court victory when a coroner ruled there should be a 7/7-style inquest into the murdered Russian dissident's death... more
A friend of murdered dissident spy Alexander Litvinenko says he is 'disappointed' David Cameron was meeting Vladimir Putin after five years of no contact between a British premier and the Russian strongman... more
David Cameron will try to mend icy relations with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin next week in the first trip to Moscow by a British leader in six years... more
In the film version of Patrick Marber’s great play, Closer, Clive Owen’s mildly kinky dermatologist demands his final revenge sex from photographer Julia Roberts... more
Dozens of locations where spies have 'lived, worked and played' are brought together in a new book — The Insider's Travel Guide to 150 Spy Sites in London... more
Oligarch Boris Berezovsky tells the High Court it is 'outrageous' to claim he was responsible for the death of his friend Alexander Litvinenko by radioactive poisoning... more
Labour suffered a humiliating rout in the European elections as it was pushed into fifth places in dozens of areas around Britain - although it clung on to second in London... more
The family of a Russian spy fatally poisoned in London have been allowed to return to their home in Haringey - two years on from his murder - after it was declared free from radiation... more
What killed Badri Patarkatsishvili? As the police scour his home for clues and a pathologist conducts a post-mortem examination, conspiracy theorists will point to the company he kept on the day he died.... more
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