New Conservative leader will take over on Wednesday after David Cameron officially hands in his resignation to the queen.
Ash from an Icelandic volcano forced the cancellation of dozens of flights to and from Scotland on Tuesday.
A web security firm said on Tuesday it had tipped off banks and police after finding a trove of stolen business and personal data amassed on a server. Finjan said it had notified the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and more than 40 financial institutions about the discovery of the so-called ”crimeserver”.
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/ 26 November 2007
In the James Bond novels and films, it fell to technical expert Q to invent the gizmos and cunningly concealed weapons that helped the British spy cheat death and save the world. From a biometric keyboard to blast-proof curtains, the inventions on display in the real world this month came from five technology firms in the final round of the Global Security Challenge.
British police believe they have arrested the main suspects in an al-Qaeda-style bomb plot, some of whom appeared in intelligence databases on radical Islamists, sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday. Security experts were considering reducing Britain’s terrorist threat level, four days after it was raised to ”critical”.
British prosecutors accused a former KGB agent on Tuesday of murdering dissident Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium and sought his extradition, throwing London and Moscow on to a diplomatic collision course. The Crown Prosecution Service said it wanted to bring suspect Andrei Lugovoy before a British court.
British prosecutors will charge former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoy with the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London last year after being poisoned with radioactive polonium. The Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday there was enough evidence to charge Lugovoy and seek his extradition from Russia.
Britain’s security service MI5 is keen to bring more women on board as it launches a new recruitment campaign this week — the latest stage in a drive to double its size. The domestic spy agency, around 1 800 strong at the time of the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, has swelled its ranks to more than 3 000.
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/ 14 December 2006
A British police inquiry ruled on Thursday that Princess Diana was not the victim of a murder plot when she died in a tragic car accident in 1997. Diana’s death triggered a string of conspiracy theories that British spies, or even her ex-husband, heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles, had plotted the accident because her relationship with Dodi al-Fayed was embarrassing the royal household.
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/ 27 November 2006
Traces of radiation have been found at several more sites in London during investigations into the death of a former KGB spy last week, British Home Secretary John Reid said on Monday. Reid told Parliament the traces had been found at ”several other premises” in addition to Alexander Litvinenko’s home and a hotel and restaurant he visited.