The US judge who oversaw the CIA leak trial of a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney said today that he received threatening letters and phone calls after sentencing Lewis “Scooter” Libby to prison.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has hired a prominent US lawyer as he fights to keep his job after arranging a generous compensation package for his former lover.

The US government has awarded an American company a contract that could be worth €620m to help rebuild Iraq’s power, water and sewage systems and repair airports and a seaport.