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The MI6 spy who was found dead inside a holdall bag in his bathtub in London hacked into secret data held on former U.S. President Bill Clinton, The Sun newspaper has sensationally claimed today. Gareth Williams was 31 years old when he was found naked, dead in his own bathtub in Pimlico, just a few minutes walk away from Britain’s Houses of Parliament. Speculation has been rife ever since his death in September 2010 about the circumstances surrounding his death. A Metropolitan Police investigation revealed predictably, though suspiciously, that Mr Williams’ death was “probably an accident”. This was despite an...

...As evidence of Mr. Clinton's impact, the campaign cites the Pennsylvania primary, which Sen. Clinton won by a margin of nearly 10 percentage points over Sen. Obama. Campaign data show that Sen. Clinton won by huge margins in several rural counties that her husband visited: 44 percentage points in Armstrong County, 44 points in Cambria County, 48 points in Carbon County and 50 points in Greene County. This compares with an edge of 26 points for Hillary among rural voters statewide. In Bucks County, a Philadelphia suburb that Mr. Clinton visited, Sen. Clinton won by 26 points, compared with only...

Dear Friend, Thank you for your tremendous support over the past weeks. Saturday's deadline marked the end of the first phase of the campaign, and you made sure it was an unqualified success. Two months ago, I said I was in it to win it, and the conversations we've been having online and around the country have convinced me more than ever that I've made the right decision. This country needs change, and it's going to take experienced leadership to make that change happen. Together, we can accomplish great things. We can end the war in Iraq. We can achieve...

Now that the source of the radiation that killed Alexander Litvinenko has been identified, the metal’s rarity could help to lead police to his killers. Polonium-210, the isotope identified in Mr Litvinenko’s body, is known to be highly toxic and radioactive, and it is not easy to come by. It occurs naturally only at trace levels, and larger amounts that would be needed to kill are manufactured in nuclear reactors or particle accelerators by bombarding bismuth-209, a similar but inert metal, with neutrons. Unlike certain other radioactive isotopes, such as caesium-137 and cobalt-60, it is not used in medical radiology,...

Syria's interior minister, Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kenaan, who was believed to have been questioned by UN investigators on the assassination of a former Lebanese leader, committed suicide on Wednesday, Syria's official news agency said. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Thursday night he hoped that Kenaan was not Syrian President Bashar Assad's “scapegoat.” Shalom claimed that Israel does not yet know the full circumstances leading to Kenaan's death, but noted that there were murder cases in the past that had been presented as suicide. Official sources in Jerusalem doubted that Ghazi Kenaan would commit suicide voluntarily, and he may not have...