AN INVESTIGATION into claims that British soldiers raped hundreds of women while training in Kenya has found no evidence that could lead to a successful prosecution, the Ministry of Defence said.

PICTURES purportedly showing British soldiers abusing an Iraqi detainee were “categorically” not taken in Iraq, the British Government said yesterday.

THE lives of British troops in Iraq may have been put at risk by the publication of photographs apparently showing British soldiers torturing and abusing an Iraqi prisoner, the British government warned last night.