Hundreds of migrants protested outside Budapest’s Eastern Railway Terminus demanding they be allowed to travel on to Germany, as EU asylum rules came close to collapse under the strain of unprecedented migration.

Rebels were attacking several security compounds in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo today, activists said.

Government troops fought back rebels near the airport of battle-scarred Aleppo, Syria’s state media said today, in the first official acknowledgement that combat had neared a strategic gateway to the country’s largest city.

UN observers have found another 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them seemingly shot execution- style, said the monitoring mission.

Two explosions have hit the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, causing a number of casualties, the country's state-run TV said.

ARTO DER HAROUTUNIAN’S name may not be familiar to many but for those with a penchant for North African food, it’s a name worth noting. Arto was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1940 and grew up in the Levant but came to Britain with his parents as a child and remained there for most of his life.

President Bush today widened his financial assault on terrorism, naming an additional 39 individuals and organizations to have their assets frozen.