The "bird flu" scare...

Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. The US Defence Secretary has made more than $5m (£2.9m) in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu, the drug being bought in massive amounts by Governments to treat a possible human pandemic of the disease...

Donald Rumsfeld makes $5m killing on bird flu drug by Geoffrey Lean and Jonathan Owen