Budget airline easyJet enjoyed good business in May, with passenger numbers rising to more than 1.75 million.

London’s leading shares endured a session of uncertainty today as dealers remained concerned about the potential for a protracted conflict in Iraq.

IN a strategy US Defence Department officials are calling “shock and awe,” forces plan to drop 10 times the bombs in the opening days of the air campaign in Iraq than they did in the first Gulf War.

Saddam Hussein issued a defiant threat today – on the anniversary of the Gulf War – that military action against Iraq would fail.

Claims that only a ‘‘small number’’ of soldiers and civilians might suffer kidney damage after heavy exposure to depleted uranium were today dismissed as ‘‘nonsense’’ by a veterans’ group.