The veterans are in the country to  find the remains of an aviator killed in the war

Britain’s nuclear deterrent does not require 24-hour patrols

Ministers argue that having nuclear submarines permanently patrolling our waters has “served us well”

The fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden alleged on Sunday that the National Security Agency was “in bed together” with German intelligence despite claims by politicians in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition that they were shocked by the extent of American spying in Germany.

They called themselves Andreas and Heidrun Anschlag and for more than 20 years, the unobtrusive Russian couple lived in Germany spying against the West - first for the Soviet Union and then for Vladimir Putin's Russia.

American suspicions of Russia have reignited in wake of the whistleblower's flight

This year’s meeting of the Group of Eight – or the G8 – begins in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, on Monday. The summit draws the world’s most powerful leaders – as well as protests and disruption.

Even John Conteh, Alan Minter and Charlie Magri took beatings

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last President of the Soviet Union, has been admitted to the Kremlin hospital in Moscow for tests, amid growing concern over his health.

Donna Hartley, who has died suddenly at the age of 58, was known as the "golden girl" of British athletics during the second half of the 1970s. She was not the first and would not be the last to receive this double-edged nomination – as she wryly acknowledged herself, being called a "golden girl" ultimately obliged you to win gold.

She has dark eyes, full lips and short hair in one of the favourite styles of London in the "swinging 60s" but who is she?

His decision could start an exodus of Olympic boxers

Book traces fate of Cold War defectors who went the 'wrong way'