Another war zone

CBS News TV journalist Lara Logan, recently promoted to chief foreign affairs correspondent in Washington, is embroiled in foreign affairs of another nature. The 37-year-old war correspondent and former model has been named as the other woman in a divorce battle involving Texas couple Joe and Kimberly Burkett. Lara was born in Durban and attended Durban Girls' College and the University of Natal, graduating in 1992. She started her journalism career at the Sunday Tribune in Durban. She left South Africa in 1992 to work for Reuters Television before joining ABC News to cover the Middle East, Europe and Africa. Joe Burkett is a US State Department contractor stationed in Baghdad and was involved in a tussle with CNN correspondent Michael Ware, with whom Lara was also romantically involved. Lara has been separated from her husband Jason Siemon, an English pro basketball player she married in 1999, for more than two years. Lara's older sister, Lisa Herr (40) of Johannesburg told the media that the Burketts were separated for six months before her sister started seeing him. Lara recently moved to Washington after being based in Baghdad for five years, and is due to give birth to Joe's child in January. Brisbane-born Michael Ware has a wife and son in Sydney. He was known as the Steve Irwin of Baghdad while covering the Iraq war since 2003.