The authors of a new book on the disappearance of Madeleine McCann say the publication is being targeted by a sustained campaign of abuse online.

THE atmosphere that day in Washington was a mixture of hope and excitement.

DURING the “Red Scare” that swept the US in the wake of Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik revolution, the justice department launched a cycle of raids against radicals and leftists.

Fifty years ago, Christine Keeler and John Profumo brought down a government and changed a nation forever. Clive Irving on the scandal that rocked Britain

Richard Fitzpatrick on two powerful men, operating on both sides of the Atlantic, who admired each other’s methods.

SHORTLY after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian President Boris Yeltsin allowed a small number of academics to poke around in the previously secret Communist Party and KGB archives.

Bob Hoskins’s retirement after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease brings the curtain down on a distinguished career.

Forty years ago, a failed burglary in Washington culminated in a giant political scandal that led to the fall of Richard Nixon.

A Kerry native from the town of Ardfert is making waves as a member of one of the world’s most famous law enforcement agencies, the FBI.

Kerryman Deaglán Ryan is fighting crime as an FBI Special Agent in New York. But it’s not very conducive to family life, he tells John Daly

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover

THERE is something of the old school Hollywood celebrity to Leonardo DiCaprio.

GLANCING at Naomi Watts’ curriculum vitae, one could be forgiven for presuming that the 43-year-old actress has a penchant for American political intrigue.

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ANTHONY SUMMERS and Robyn Swan’s office is organised chaos.

LEONARDO DiCaprio once crowed that he was “the king of the world,” and the 36-year-old actor now has the bank account to back it up.

Behind The Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed A Nation

IN A special Millennium edition Time magazine named Frank Sinatra ‘the voice’ of the 20th century.

ALISTAIR CAMPBELL, in person, is taller, funnier and infinitely more charming than he is in print.

Hampton Sides

Writer-director Michael Mann’s film is a biopic of American Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger and his team of men who operated on the fringes of the law.

OJ Simpson again walked free from a Las Vegas jail today, hours after a judge blistered him for “arrogance or ignorance” for breaking bail terms in a robbery case.

FORMER FBI director J Edgar Hoover drew up a list of thousands of US citizens he suspected of being disloyal and put forward a plan to have them arrested, newly declassified papers reveal.

The way conspiracy theories grow demonstrates the need for investigations to be seen to be thorough and impartial.

FAIR play to Prof John Crown and cardiac surgeon Maurice Neligan for speaking out about the shortcomings of our health service.

Shamed American football star OJ Simpson is in court again today for a crunch hearing to decide whether he will go on trial for the second time in his life.

OJ Simpson’s arrest may be the start of a new legal odyssey for the fallen American football star and actor, one that could reopen the possibility of prison time more than a decade after his acquittal on murder charges.

Police have arrested OJ Simpson after an armed group allegedly burst into a US hotel room and snatched memorabilia that documented his sports career.

OJ SIMPSON was arrested yesterday and faces multiple felony charges in an alleged armed robbery of collectors of Simpson’s sports memorabilia, authorities said.

Martin Fallon has a right to feel aggrieved.

THE former FBI chief admitted he was “shocked” and “deeply hurt” when he discovered that his second-in-command had been the famed Watergate source known as Deep Throat who helped impeach President Nixon.

Forty years after President John F Kennedy’s assassination, an overwhelming majority of Americans do not believe the official conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, killed the president with a cheap mail-order rifle fired from the Texas School Book Depository.

Kelsey Grammer has a new role in store when Frasier finally comes to an end next year.

A former Ku Klux Klansman has been convicted of murder for the 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls.