George Shultz, a former US secretary of state who significantly shaped foreign policy in the late 20th Century, has died at the age of 100. He died on Saturday at his home in Stanford, California ...

Born in Oxton, Merseyside, in 1887, George Schultz emigrated in 1911 but responded to the call for volunteers in 1914. He died after being wounded while leading his battalion in Picardy ...