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The new chief of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, will be Sir John Sawers, currently ambassador to the United Nations. Sir John will take up his job in early November, replacing Sir John Scarlett, head of the Joint Intelligence Committee in the run-up to the Iraq war, who has spent more than five years in the post. Gordon Brown's official spokesman insisted yesterday that the move had no connection with the impending Iraq inquiry, at which the outgoing MI6 head is expected to be a key witness.... [read full story]
Heritage Oil, the UK-listed exploration and production company, is expected to announce the sale of its Ugandan assets for over £1bn as early as tomorrow. Italian energy giant ENI is understood to be acquiring the assets, two...
THE RAF is to fly its first all-woman combat helicopter crew into action in southern Afghanistan. The four women are expected to fly a number of missions taking troops and supplies to the frontline against the Taliban in...
Hussein Mohammed Janabi is a loving little boy who adores his younger siblings, Amneh, 3, and six-month-old twins Zeid and Sajad. But his parents find it difficult to answer him when he asks — as he often does — “Why are they...
Last week it was hard to choose which was the better ending to a decade of make believe. Indeed, we suspect the US army's worst soldier would have loved the effrontery of juxtaposing all these unfunded promises with that gem of...
