The 'highly unusual' investigation, believed to have began in the mid-to-late 1990s before concluding in 2015, came following ...

Melita Norwood was the KGB's longest-serving female agent in Britain, until being exposed in 1992 by legendary defector Vasili Mitrokhin ...

Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, who recently starred in Guy Ritchie's MobLand, will reunite in an upcoming crime comedy on Netflix.

The Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi, the world’s oldest parliament, is established. 1547: Champion of the Protestant Reformation, Philip I, ...

1916: First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men. 1920: French tennis superstar Suzanne Lenglen beats Dorothea Chambers 6-3, 6-0 to win the ...

SPY chiefs probed a suspected “Russian double agent” at the heart of MI6 in a 20-year global operation, it has been revealed.

The 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is based on John le Carré's 1974 novel of the same name, and features a who's who of British acting talent. Gary Oldman leads the film, while Toby Jones ...

A battered leather briefcase left behind by Guy Burgess when he fled to Moscow in 1951 is among 20 objects from MI5's archives to go on display for the first time from Saturday.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are in contact with the authorities in Cyprus regarding the arrest of a British man." RAF Akrotiri is the UK's most important airbase for operations in the Middle ...

Buy British Comedy Legends in newsagents or online, now priced at just £3.99. Netflix is removing Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy's excellent British spy thriller next month.© StudioCanal ...

Professional podcaster Guy Snapdragon, also known as The Undercover Intern, granted us some valuable interview time recently. There are reports in the tabloids today that in 1999 you were incarcerated ...