Fires sparked by clashes between government troops and rebels raged through the medieval marketplace of Aleppo today, destroying hundreds of shops lining the vaulted passageways where foods, fabrics, perfumes and spices have been sold for centuries, activists said.

A permanent prison is being built at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre where hundreds of terrorist suspects are held, it emerged today.

A DOCTOR working as a translator at the US prison camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was arrested yesterday.

MILITARY officials have charged a US Air Force translator at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with espionage and aiding the enemy for allegedly trying to send information about detainees to Syria.