Dan Rather echoed a word he once used every night to sign off the “CBS Evening News” – courage – in ending the programme for the final time after 24 years as one of America’s best-known television news anchors.

LEGENDARY CBS News anchor Dan Rather signed off for the last time last night but tributes to the 73-year-old veteran were mixed with sniping after his final months were marred by a scandal that tarnished his reputation.

CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan has resigned amid a furore over remarks he made about journalists killed by the US military in Iraq.

David Bauder, New York

American broadcasting giant CBS issued a damning independent review of mistakes over an investigative report on President George Bush’s National Guard service, sacking three news executives and a producer for their ”myopic zeal” in rushing it to air.

Four US TV executives were sacked today following the release of an independent investigation into a CBS story about President Bush’s military service that relied on forged documents.

US TV news anchor Dan Rather is quitting on the 24th anniversary of his appointment by CBS.

AMERICA’S top news networks are determined to prevent a repeat of their 2000 presidential election embarrassment, which saw them declare the wrong winner.

America’s top news networks are determined to prevent a repeat of their 2000 presidential election embarrassment, which saw them declare the wrong winner.

Presidential hopeful John Kerry tried to win voters with laughs today, poking fun at George Bush on the David Letterman television talk show.

America’s CBS News has mounted an aggressive defence of its report about President George Bush’s service in the Air National Guard, saying broadcast memos questioned by forensic experts came from “what we consider to be solid sources”.

AN argument is raging over whether documents which suggest US President George Bush lost his status as a National Guard pilot during the Vietnam War may be fake.

Bill Clinton has said he had a White House affair with Monica Lewinsky “just because I could”.

Photographs of Iraqi prisoners, naked except for hoods covering their heads, stacked in a human pyramid, have been shown on prime time US TV.

Macabre images of four American contractors killed in Iraq filled television screens worldwide but were largely shunned by American television that deemed them too graphic.

FIGHTING against time and his inability to move to the top of polls in Super Tuesday states, John Edwards sharply attacked front-runner John Kerry as a Washington practitioner of politics as usual.

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein said his country is prepared to defend itself vigorously against any US-led attack.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair faced an anti-war revolt by his own backers, while French President Jacques Chirac won broad support for resisting war on Iraq yesterday.

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein says he would rather die than leave his country, dismissing suggestions by US and Arab leaders that he could go into exile to avoid war.

THE broadcast of an interview with Saddam Hussein, who challenged US President George W Bush to a televised debate, was being held up

Saddam Hussein may be having second thoughts about his initial defiance of UN orders to destroy Iraq’s Al Samoud 2 missiles.

A US television network has landed an interview with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

US TV news opted to be safe, not sorry, in covering the election results.

Fears were today mounting that the danger to the public from America’s anthrax outbreak was greater than had initially been believed.

More than 2,000 postal workers were tonight awaiting the results of anthrax tests after a colleague in Washington DC was diagnosed with the most serious form of the infection.

FBI detectives believe they have found the anthrax-laced letter which infected a worker at the New York Post newspaper, it was revealed today.

US officials are today trying to calm mounting anthrax fears after two more cases of the desease were confirmed.

A New York Post employee has contracted skin anthrax, a television station affiliated with the newspaper reported today.

Investigators are trying to track the US anthrax outbreak back to a New Jersey postal carrier who may have handled the envelopes.

The latest victim of anthrax in the US is expected to make a full recovery.