The killing of  Anwar al-Awlaki was the first, and only, publicly known case in which a US citizen was deliberately targeted for killing by drone strike. Photograph: US Navy/Jeffrey S Viano/Reuters

The US government has formally acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four Americans, including militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, wh(...)

Ryan Ackroyd, one of four men who had pleaded guilty for their involvement in a series of high-profile cyber attacks in 2011, puts out a cigarette before returning to Southwark Crown Court for sentencing in London. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters

Some of the longest ever jail sentences for hacking have been handed down to four British members of the international computer hackers’ gang L(...)

A man named as Ryan Fogle by the Russian Federal Security Service, lies on the ground during his detention.  Photograph:  Press service of Russian Federal Security Service/Handout via Reuters

Russian security services have held a US diplomat they claim is a CIA agent after catching him trying to recruit a Russian agent. The FSB(...)

The US consulate in Benghazi after the attack on September 11th, 2012, in which ambassador Chris Steven was killed.  Photograph: Esam Al-Fetori/Reuters

The capital is in the throes of deja vu and preview as it plunges back into Clinton Rules, defined by a presidential aide on the hit ABC show (...)

Three of the world’s richest men, according to Forbes magazine’s annual list of billionaires worldwide: Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim and Bill Gates.

Forbes magazine published a special edition in March with the cover headline: “Bi(...)

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva (centre), the mother of the suspected Boston bombers, speaks to reporters while the father Anzor Tsarnaev and aunt Patimat Suleymanova look on, in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Photograph: Sergey Rassulov/Getty

One brother posted messages on the Twitter social media website typical of an average American teenager; they were about his favourite televisi(...)

People gather at a makeshift memorial in Copley Square, near the site of the Boston Marathon bombings yesterday in Boston, Massachusetts. Photographs: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Russian president Vladimir Putin said today that the Boston bombings showed the need for Russia and the United States to work more closely on s(...)

Australian Federal policemen arrest the self-proclaimed leader of the international hacking group LulzSec, the collective that claimed responsibility for infiltrating and shutting down the CIA website. Photograph: Australian Federal Police

Australian Federal Police have arrested the self-proclaimed leader of the international hacking group LulzSec, the collective that claimed resp(...)

A makeshift memorial for victims today near the site of the Boston Marathon bombings at the intersection of Boylston Street and Berkley Street. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

US Republican lawmakers questioned today whether the FBI had fumbled the case of one of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects, alleging it w(...)

Kim Jong-il is never mentioned by name in James Church’s books but his influence as “the central” is everywhere in them. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

In the murky world of North Korean politics, you find heroes in the strangest places. One such figure is Inspector O, a mysterious North(...)

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