Dick Cheney: Former US vice-president who helped lead 'war on terror'

Dick Cheney, who has died at the age of 84, had a glittering - if controversial - career in American public life.

He served as President Gerald Ford's White House chief of staff in the 1970s, before spending a decade in the House of Representatives.

President George HW Bush made him defence secretary during the first Gulf War and the US invasion of Panama.