FIVE-TIME Oscar-winning composer John Barry, who wrote music for a dozen James Bond films, including You Only Live Twice and Goldfinger — but couldn’t persuade a jury that he composed the suave spy’s theme music — has died. He was 77.

Hollywood’s elite have paid tribute to Sean Connery, who received The American Film Institute’s annual lifetime achievement award.

A SOLDIER already convicted in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal testified yesterday that fellow Army reservist Private Lynndie England was a willing participant in creating the “human pyramid” of naked Iraqi detainees shown in infamous photographs from Iraq.