Funeral in Berlin is the second presentation of the exploits of Harry Palmer, the soft-sell sleuth, this time enmeshed in Berlin counter-espionage. Michael Caine encores in the role that made him a ...

THE SLEEPY-EYED character in the well-tailored London suit casually smoked a Gauloise in the sinister shadow of the wall. He cast a cursory glance through his heavy-framed glasses at the ...

Construction workers made a grisly discovery in 2014 during excavation work on the grounds of Berlin's Freie Universitaet: fragments of human bones. Over the next two years, thousands more bone ...

Bone fragments thought to have been held in Nazi "scientific" collections were given a funeral in Berlin on Thursday - Copyright AFP OLIVIER DOULIERY Bone fragments ...

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The German capital on Thursday ordered official flags to be lowered to half-mast during Mikhail Gorbachev's weekend funeral as calls grew for a fitting tribute to the last Soviet leader. "We want to ...

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and ...

First sequel to The Ipcress File, with Michael Caine as blockbuster spy author Len Deighton's bespectacled kitchen-sink Bond, Harry Palmer. Made in 1966, it doesn't have that first film's grubby chic, ...