Lenovo - the largest PC producer in the world - is indirectly backed by the Chinese state

TV pick of the week: Burton and Taylor

The Home Secretary's premature decision is enough to show she has prejudged the issue and her bias would make any subsequent decision open to challenge, says Geoffrey Robertson

Snowden posted the messages under a pseudonym during the eight years that he worked for the CIA and the NSA

What made the whistleblower give up his Hawaiian idyll?

Revelations of snooping into private data and communications on a massive scale by the Obama administration has shed a little daylight on the widespread and lucrative links between American intelligence agencies, industry and academia.

Kathyrn Bigelow DVD/Blu-ray (157mins)

John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer jailed for revealing the name of a covert agent in charge of the US government’s Bush-era enhanced interrogation programme, has claimed he is treated as “subhuman” by wardens at the Pennsylvania prison where he is held.

Hague warns Assad over negotiations

Two men hanged after spying charges

Two jailed, another sent to young offenders unit and fourth handed suspended sentence

FSB operative claims American was paraded so publicly to teach the United States a lesson

Shaun Walker on the scarcely believable tale of the wig-wearing diplomat expelled from Moscow

Almost three weeks after the elder of the two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing was killed in a police chase his body was finally interred tonight, officials said. Requests to several cemeteries to take Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s remains had been turned down.