Operational for years, the cell tracked Russia's enemies across Europe. Its leaders plotted honeytraps, kidnap and murder in service of the Kremlin. Following a trial, three members were convicted on ...

Ukraine’s nuclear power plants “belong to the people of Ukraine”, Volodymyr Zelensky declared, after the US proposed taking ...

The Bank of Hindostan, General Bank of Bengal and Bengal Bank became the first banks in India to issue paper currency in the 18th Century. During this time, paper money was first issued in British Ind ...

The venue is close to the football stadium and, in recent years, has been turned into what is perhaps best described as part pub, part shrine to Blackpool Football Club. The Armfield’s pool table is ...

In the latest in a series looking at Shakespeare’s references to birds, Steve Sutherland has the lark in his sights.

Roman Dobrokhotov is used to looking over his shoulder. The Russian journalist's investigations into Vladimir Putin's regime - one of which unmasked the agents responsible for the 2018 Salisbury ...

Roman Dobrokhotov is used to looking over his shoulder ... An email address associated with him includes the 007 sobriquet of the world's most famous secret agent. He moved to Britain in 2009, before ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access information on a device and to provide personalised ads and content, ad and ...

Here are seven things people think are British but actually aren’t. There’s no denying that a ‘cuppa’ is a quintessential ...

Romans kept dogs as pets, exemplified in this mosaic from the second or third century A.D. Some of the bones from the ritual deposit in Surrey may have belonged to domestic dogs, but it's unclear ...

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...