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The wig-wearing CIA 'spy' American Ryan Fogle, whose official role is as a third secretary from the political section of the US embassy in Moscow, is detained by Russian security services who claim they caught him red-handed offering a potential recruit up to $1million per year. State media...

The real-life Bond girl Eleven alleged "deep cover" Russian agents are exposed by the FBI, living an elaborate lie in the US, where they had been sent by Moscow to infiltrate the circles that financial and political policy makers moved in. One was Anna Chapman, a girl about Manhattan who had...

A picture broadcast by the Russian state-run Rossiya television and grabbed on Euronews channel 23 January 2006 shows the 'spy-rock' that was being used as a high-tech version of the spy's traditional letter-box Picture: AFP

The embarrassing 'spy rock' Britain initially laughed off accusations from Moscow in 2006 that spies had been caught "red-handed" using the fake rock to contact agents and download sensitive information. Video footage at the time showed men alleged to be British agents repeatedly walking past...

The tiny platinum ball which killed BBC broadcaster Georgi Markov, who had defected from Bulgaria in 1969. The ball contained ricin, a deadly poison and was injected into Mr Markov's leg using an umbrella. Picture: HULTON ARCHIVE

The poison-tip umbrella The murder of Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident poisoned by the tip of an umbrella in central London 34 years ago, remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Cold War. Markov was assassinated on the orders of the Bulgarian secret service as he waited for a...

Hola Melita Norwood was once described as "the most important British female agent ever recruited by the KGB". Recruited in 1937 by the NKVD, the forerunner to the KGB, she spent 40 years photographing documents nad passing them on to her Soviet controllers, who gave her the codename Hola. She...

Tea laced with polonium Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian dissident and former KGB agent, was poisoned by radioactive polonium–210 while drinking tea during a meeting with former security colleagues at the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square in 2006. He died three weeks later in a London...

Somaliland waits for worldwide recognition Citizens and leaders in the autonomous region of Somalia say they are historically and politically a separate country. Last Modified: 18 May 2013 09:13<object id="flashObj" classid="clsid:D <embed...

Boston suspect 'wrote message in boat' Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left note describing marathon bombing as retribution for US wars in Muslim countries, US TV reports. Last Modified: 17 May 2013 10:06 Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found hiding in a boat days after the attack [Reuters]...

PLA holds drills as Taipei-Manila row rumbles on Staff Reporter 2013-05-16 17:39 A Chinese J-11 fighter during an exercise. (Photo/Xinhua) The People's Liberation Army has held simultaneous naval and air force drills as the dispute between Taiwan and the Philippines over the fatal shooting...

SK President Criticizes Japan At Meeting With US Congress by Beth on Friday, May 10, 2013 API Images South Korean President, Park Geun Hye is currently in the United States meeting President Obama and other key members of the government. In her address to the US Congress, given in...

Women Told To Think About How Pregnancy Fits Their Life Plan by Beth on Thursday, May 9, 2013 The government is to encourage women to think about how pregnancy fits into their life plan. The falling birthrate is a major social problem in Japan, and the government frequently investigates...

31 people in 3 countries detained in Belgium airport diamond heist Baggage carts make their way past a Helvetic Airways aircraft from which millions' of dollars worth of diamonds were stolen on the tarmac of Brussels international airport, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. (AP / Yves Logghe) The...

Rodman to Kim: 'Do me a solid' and free American AP foreign, Wednesday May 8 2013 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to call for the release of a Korean-American man detained in the North. Rodman met with Kim...

Woman who injected COOKING OIL into her own face after doctors refused to give her any more plastic surgery Hang Mioku was obsessed with silicone injections as she wanted 'soft' skin Doctors told her she had psychological issue and refused more treatments Korean resorted to injecting...

Heavy metal singer arrested in murder-for-hire plot: police Date May 8, 2013 - 1:13PM As I Lay Dying singer Tim Lambesis performing at the 2010 Revolver Golden Gods Awards. Photo: Getty Images Tim Lambesis, lead singer for the heavy metal, "christian" band As I Lay Dying, has been arrested...

Russian opposition seek to revive protests against Putin A banner that reads ''Freedom of prisoners on May 6'' is seen in Moscow, May 6, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Anton Stekov By Timothy Heritage MOSCOW | Mon May 6, 2013 9:06am EDT (Reuters) - Russian protestors unfurled a huge banner demanding...

Turkey launches military exercise near Syrian border ANKARA | Mon May 6, 2013 8:54am EDT (Reuters) - The Turkish military launched a 10-day exercise at a base near the border with Syria on Monday, where fears of a spillover of violence and of the fallout of any chemical weapons use have...