I am not funny: Daniel Craig
September 3rd, 2012 - 6:04 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 3 (IANS) Actor Daniel Craig says he had to "work hard" for funny scenes in the James Bond films.The 44-year-old, who has played the British spy in ... Read more...
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Wanting to fight Nazis, Hitler’s nephew wrote to Roosevelt
August 2nd, 2012 - 5:46 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 2 (IANS) A nephew of Adolf Hitler wrote a letter to then US president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 in which he begged to be allowed to enlist ... Read more...
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Facebook, Twitter should be monitored: ex-British spy
April 25th, 2012 - 2:31 am ICT by IANS
London, April 25 (IANS) Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter should be monitored to prevent their misuse by paedophiles and terrorists, a former British spy chief has said.David ... Read more...
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British spy planes grounded over safety fears
April 14th, 2012 - 9:20 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 14 (IANS) British air defence surveillance planes have been grounded amid safety fears, a media report said Saturday.Service chiefs ordered the RAF's ageing Boeing Sentry E-3D jets not ... Read more...
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‘Haywire’ - tale of a modern femme fatale (IANS Movie Review)
January 28th, 2012 - 5:52 pm ICT by IANS
Film: "Haywire"; Cast: Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender; Director: Steven Soderbergh; Rating: ***1/2Hollywood is always on the lookout for deadly femme fatales who can give men a run for their ... Read more...
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Not satisfied with my career: Daniel Craig
December 5th, 2011 - 8:37 am ICT by IANS
London, Dec 5 (IANS) Actor Daniel Craig says he is such a perfectionist that he is never satisfied with his work.The "James Bond" actor, who resumes his role as ... Read more...
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Doing rom-com would be disaster for me: Craig
August 8th, 2011 - 2:10 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 8 (IANS) Actor Daniel Craig, who has featured as British spy James Bond in "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace", does not think it would be a ... Read more...
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Harris finds the next Bond movie special
July 4th, 2011 - 8:31 am ICT by IANS
London, July 4 (IANS) Actress Naomie Harris thinks the 23rd installment of the James Bond movies will have a "very special" feeling to it.The British actress is a top ... Read more...
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Ava Gardner’s sex pact with Brit war hero who inspired James Bond
April 14th, 2011 - 4:57 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 14 (ANI): The memoir of a late British war hero has revealed the amorous sex life he led, a sex pact he made with actress Ava Gardner, and how he ... Read more...
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Gaddafi is a psychological wreck, says ex-Libyan Foreign Affairs Minister
April 2nd, 2011 - 5:18 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 2(ANI): Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi is a psychological wreck, former Libyan Foreign Affairs Minister Moussa Koussa has told British spy chiefs.According to the Sun, Koussa said that Gaddafi is cowering ... Read more...
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Britain faces wave of suicide attacks: WikiLeaks
February 4th, 2011 - 12:36 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 4 (IANS) Britain faces the risk of a wave of terror attacks by British-born "suicide operatives" who are not on the intelligence services' radar, secret US cables leaked by WikiLeaks ... Read more...
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Gestapo tortured ex-Brit spy Nearne, BBC documentary reveals after her death
November 2nd, 2010 - 4:38 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov.2 (ANI): More than a month after she died, a former British spy's tale of how she was tortured by the Gestapo of the German Nazi regime during the height of ... Read more...
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Real ‘James Bond’ loved pretty women, fast cars
September 22nd, 2010 - 3:15 pm ICT by IANS
London, Sep 22 (IANS) There was a real "James Bond" who was an incorrigible raconteur with a penchant for pretty women and fast cars, says a new history of Britain's intelligence service ... Read more...
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Brit female spy who famously evaded Gestapo dies lonely at 89
September 14th, 2010 - 5:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept.14 (ANI): To many, 89-year-old Eileen Nearne was simply a quiet and unassuming lady, and few knew that she was a British spy who had plotted behind enemy lines during much ... Read more...
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‘Bond’ star George Lazenby bedded ‘a woman a day’
September 11th, 2010 - 1:49 pm ICT by ANI
Wellington, Sep 11 (ANI): George Lazenby, an Australian who played James Bond a single time in the 1969 movie 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', has revealed that he bedded a woman a ... Read more...
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British spy sang for Hitler with secret documents in her underwear
September 10th, 2010 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 10 (ANI): Margery Booth, who was an opera singer and later identified as a British spy, performed before Adolf Hitler with secret documents concealed in her underwear.Booth was chosen ... Read more...
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Suspected British spy found murdered in London
August 25th, 2010 - 3:07 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 25 (IANS) The body of a man believed to be a British spy has been found stuffed into a large sports bag in a bathroom of his London flat
In ... Read more...
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John Le Carre is no fan of “international gangster” James Bond
August 24th, 2010 - 2:35 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Aug 24 (ANI): British spy novel author David John Moore Cornwell, who writes under the name John Le Carre, has revealed that he is no fan of author Ian Fleming's ... Read more...
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Daniel Craig can’t wait to play James Bond again
August 3rd, 2010 - 5:27 pm ICT by ANI
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loves playing James Bond and is eagerly waiting to reprise his role as the
iconic British spy for ... Read more...
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British spy drone sets new flying record
July 17th, 2010 - 1:37 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 17 (ANI): A British-designed, solar-powered aircraft called Zephyr has already been up in the air for 168 hours, doubling the previous world record it set in 2008.According to The ... Read more...
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Poker on a high in Goa’s own Casino Royale
July 15th, 2010 - 2:06 pm ICT by IANS
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Panaji, July 15 (IANS) For a change, poker and not James Bond will be the major draw at Casino Royale - at least the one in Goa! For, coming ... Read more...
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Pierce Brosnan struggled with Bond role
April 13th, 2010 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 13 (IANS) Hollywood actor Pierce Brosnan feels he never managed to get the character of James Bond completely right because he couldn't forget the actors who had previously played the ... Read more...
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Alex Reid was spy in previous life!
February 24th, 2010 - 11:19 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 24 (IANS) "Celebrity Big Brother" winner Alex Reid worked as a British spy in a previous life, according to a hypnosis conducted on him.
The cage-fighter who is married to ... Read more...
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Sam Worthington tipped to play new Bond
February 15th, 2010 - 4:42 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Feb 15 (ANI): Aussie actor Sam Worthington, famed for his 'Avatar' role, has been tipped as the next person to play the famous spy James Bond.According to the Daily Telegraph, ... Read more...
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MI5 warns of terror plot to crash Indian plane into British city (Roundup)
January 24th, 2010 - 9:29 pm ICT by IANS
By Dipankar De Sarkar
London, Jan 24 (IANS) Terrorists linked to the Al Qaeda plan to hijack an Indian plane and crash it into a British city, security sources here were Sunday ... Read more...
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Mussolini was a British spy
October 14th, 2009 - 6:55 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 14 (IANS) Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini was a British spy in 1917 - paid to write newspaper articles during the First World War, a Cambridge University historian said quoting ... Read more...
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British spies tried to ‘get rid of’ Krishna Menon
October 5th, 2009 - 6:27 pm ICT by IANS
By Dipankar De Sarkar
London, Oct 5 (IANS) British intelligence agencies were so suspicious of India's first High Commissioner to Britain - a man with strong leftist sympathies - that they tried to ... Read more...
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JRR Tolkien ‘trained as British spy’
September 17th, 2009 - 12:38 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sept 17 (ANI): Lord Of The Rings author JRR Tolkien secretly trained as a British Government spy in the run up to the Second World War, it has emerged.Tolkien, an Oxford ... Read more...
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Robert Pattinson denies working on Peter Pedrero film
September 2nd, 2009 - 6:00 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 2 (ANI): Brit actor Robert Pattinson has dismissed reports that he is starring in movie stuntman Peter Pedrero's film.Pattinson, 23, has insisted that he has nothing to do with 'Vauxhall ... Read more...
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Megan Fox ‘turns down Bond girl role’
July 22nd, 2009 - 4:48 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 22 (ANI): Megan Fox is not interested in becoming the next Bond girl, according to sources.The 'Transformers' beauty was reportedly lined up by producers to play one of the suave ... Read more...
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Potter may topple Bond as top-grossing movie franchise of all time
July 15th, 2009 - 1:18 pm ICT by ANI
New York, July 15 (ANI): The 'Harry Potter' film series seems set to topple James Bond movies as top-grossing franchise in box office history.The last five 'Harry Potter' films are said to ... Read more...
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New British spy chief’s wife leaves him exposed on Facebook
July 5th, 2009 - 5:15 pm ICT by IANS
London, July 5 (IANS) The man set to take over as head of Britain's external spy agency has been left exposed after his wife published photographs and family details on the ... Read more...
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British spy agency wants a gadget guru
April 23rd, 2009 - 1:44 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 23 (IANS) Britain's security intelligence agency MI5 wants to recruit a gadget guru - a real-life counterpart of Q who always pops up to help out James Bond with an ... Read more...
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Bond voted top hero in magazine poll
March 28th, 2009 - 1:08 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 28 (IANS) British spy James Bond has been voted the top hero beating the likes of Indiana Jones, Superman and Harry Potter in a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly.
Bond ... Read more...
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MI5 spy in British jails to monitor Islamic radicals
December 21st, 2008 - 5:14 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 21 (ANI): British spy chiefs are putting undercover officers into Britains jails to monitor Islamic radicals thought to be recruiting terrorists.There are almost 10,000 Muslims in Britains jails ... Read more...
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