SOFIA, Bulgaria – The defector from communist Bulgaria was killed at a London bus stop, jabbed in the thigh with a poisoned umbrella tip in one of the most sensational assassinations of the Cold War.

Bulgaria's president inaugurated a statue to dissident playwright Georgi Markov, who was thought to have been assassinated by the Bulgarian secret police working with the KGB in London in 1978.

More than half the world’s population was not born or was less than 10 years old when a 23-year-old Turk named Mehmet Ali Agca shot the pope four times with a 9-mm pistol from a distance of 15 feet as ...