Two British-based US airmen were killed and two others wounded when a man armed with a handgun opened fire on them at close range.

Two Nato troops and a British soldier have been killed during the ongoing anti-Taliban offensive in Afghanistan.

The US government has released the most extensive list yet of the hundreds of detainees who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison – nearly all labelled enemy combatants, but only a handful of whom have faced formal charges.