US president George Bush’s justification for the Iraq war suffered another major setback when a commission dismissed claims of a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida.

Chief executive of Securicor PLC, Nick Buckles, has said he believes the group's key markets should pick up in the second half of 2004 even though current trading has remained difficult.

A rebuilt World Trade Centre should be tall enough to act as a ‘‘powerful symbol’’ of America’s strength, new guidelines from the site’s developers said today.