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London - Britain's ambassador to the United Nations, John Sawers, is to become the next chief of the country's overseas intelligence service (MI6) in November, the government announced Tuesday. The 52-year-old top diplomat is to succeed John Scarlett, the publicity-shy spy chief whose reputation was badly dented by the service's role in drawing up the so-called Iraq dossier on the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction under Saddam Hussein. Sawers, who will oversee an espionage network that has switched its priorities from the post-war goal of fighting Soviet-style communism to watching al-Qaeda, worked as a key foreign policy adviser to former prime... [read full story]
Charles Walker was a distinguished civil engineer in Scotland and the Far East who is memorable as the man who tracked down the unmarked grave of the Scottish Olympic athlete Eric Liddell, who died in a Japanese prison camp in...
Elisabeth Söderström was one of the most natural performers in opera. She regarded herself as a storyteller; vocalism for its own sake did not interest her, and she often said that her own voice was nothing special. There she...
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble pressed General Motors on Sunday to shed light on its plans for Opel and said the U.S. group had a responsibility for workers at its European unit. A GM executive...
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