Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a US army psychiatrist, is in hospital under military guard after going on a shooting rampage at a military base in Texas.

A United States military panel on Monday convicted Private Lynndie England on six out of seven counts of mistreating Iraqi prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad. England became the public face of the scandal after photographs of the soldier holding a leash attached to a naked prisoner were shown around the world.