His press secretary, James Brady, a secret service agent and a police officer were also wounded.

BBC: Reagan shooter John Hinckley wants leave from hospital

Desperate Dan is still in there as is Beryl the Peril but there are new strips too like James Blonde - an inept secret agent - and The Bogies - the imagined adventures of err.. bogies.

BBC: When life was just Dandy

"007", moniker of James Bond, promises the disclosure of a secret.

BBC: The pager rings off

While many remember dramatic Swiss Alps ski scenes with machine guns setting off avalanches, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" opens on the beaches of Portugal, with James Bond staying at the Hotel Palacio overlooking the Bay of Cascais.

CNN: 9 glamorous movie-star hotels

James D'Arcy, who starred in ITV2 opposite Billie Piper in Secret Diary of a Call Girl, has been cast as Edward VIII.

BBC: Madonna casts Fox family for Wallis Simpson film

Is the life of a secret agent as thrilling or as glamorous as it's portrayed in hit flicks like James Bond and Mission Impossible?

CNN: Quest undercover

Mr. JAMES BAMFORD (Author, "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency"): My pleasure, Michele.

NPR: NSA Case Plaintiff and Author James Bamford

Cari Rosen, author of The Secret Diary of a new Mum aged 43 and a quarter, told the Today programme's James Naughtie that it was much more acceptable to be an older mother today than in the past.

BBC: Older motherhood 'becoming more acceptable'

James Bond fans may remember it as backdrop for scenes in the 1969 movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

BBC: Where did skiing come from?

James nodded and said that Cairo was in an adjoining room, muzzled, at the request of the Secret Service.

NEWYORKER: Getting Bin Laden