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Joe Biden struggles to choose UK ambassador as no clear frontrunner emerges President keen to appoint someone with diplomatic experience for 'most important post' Bob Iger, the executive chairman of Disney, could be considered for the post Credit: AP Joe Biden is struggling to decide on who to nominate as US ambassador to the UK amid "intense competition" for the role. The US president has decided on nominees for the European Union, Nato, France, Belgium, Japan and Canada and will announce them over the next few weeks. But there is still no clear frontrunner for the job in London, according t...

Former top State Department official is Biden’s leading contender to be US ambassador to China Nicholas Burns, a former US ambassador and senior State Department official, is the leading contender for US ambassador to China, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. The Biden administration wants to fill the role with someone who has extensive diplomatic experience and Burns meets that criteria, the sources said, but noted that announcements on any ambassador nominations are likely a ways off. The role of top US envoy in Beijing will be a challenging one. The Biden administrat...

Nick Burns, a former US ambassador and senior State Department official, is the leading contender for US ambassador to China, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

Can Joe Biden save America? FDR wrote the playbook the new president needs—and he’s been studying it closely Biden saw Camelot before him on his election as one of the youngest ever senators in 1972, hoping to be the next JFK only nine years after the man himself had been shot. Joe had dashing good looks, a glamorous young wife, and three beautiful children. Then days later a truck smashed into Neilia Biden’s Chevrolet as she was on her way to buy a Christmas tree. Neilia and baby Naomi were killed instantly; the two under-five boys, Beau and Hunter, seriously injured. Overnight, Joe be...

The recipe produced a kid at once charming and determined, a stutterer who got bullied and worked like a mule to overcome his speech impediment. He could be daring, a bit of a show-off, yet friends were eager to be near him. He could be a lot of fun. At age 10, Joey invented a game at a construction site where a local college was building an arts centre. He’d climb atop six-story-high steel beams, edge out on to 18-inch-wide girders, grab a rope and swing out into the open sky. “Joe Biden had balls. Lots of times, more balls than sense,” Cramer wrote.