Audio equipment millionaire Sidney Harman, who bought Newsweek magazine last year and oversaw its merger with The Daily Beast, has aged 92.

The Iraq Study Group’s members found it so hard to agree on their recommendations to US President George W Bush that they almost came to blows, its co-chairman has reportedly revealed.

Troops were in place, the borders were closed and the ballots were ready today on the eve of Iraqi parliamentary elections that the US hopes will build democracy and set the stage for American troops to begin returning home.