Newsweek retracts Koran story

Newsweek magazine, under fire for a publishing story that led to deadly protests in Afghanistan, said tonight it was retracting its report that a military probe had found evidence of desecration of the Koran by US interrogators at Guantanamo Bay.

Earlier today, US presidential spokesman Scott McClellan criticised Newsweek’s initial response to the incident, saying it was “puzzling”.