Crystal and china maker Waterford Wedgwood today said poor trading over Christmas left it facing bigger than expected full year losses.

WATERFORD WEDGEWOOD yesterday announced the appointment of Anthony Jones to its board of directors and as chief financial officer with immediate effect.

The only US military officer charged with a crime in the Abu Ghraib jail abuse scandal will be court-martialled on eight charges, including cruelty and maltreatment of prisoners.

Charlie Mann’s waiting game with Prairie Moonlight paid dividends after an impressive performance at Ludlow.

HUNDREDS of thousands of people across the Houston metropolitan area struggled to make their way inland in a vast, bumper-to-bumper exodus as Hurricane Rita closed in on the fourth-largest city in the US with winds howling at 241 kilometres an hour.

The US Army today replaced Maj Gen George Fay with a more senior general as chief investigator of the role of military intelligence in the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.