US President Barack Obama and ANC spokesperson Keith Khoza have been among the friends and foes who paid tribute to the UK’s iconic Margaret Thatcher.
French leader Nicolas Sarkozy says he will quit politics if he loses next month’s election as his challenger presses home on the incumbent’s record.
Triumphant fighters marched up and down as dazed and frightened patients in Sirte’s main hospital lay crammed into a ground floor corridor.
Fighters loyal to Libya’s interim government are battling for full control of Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace where diehards are holed up.
Streams of civilians have fled Sirte in Libya while the Red Cross warns of a medical emergency and battles continue.
Two children have been killed in rocket fire as their family joined the quickening exodus of civilians during a two-day window to flee Sirte, Libya.
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/ 27 September 2011
Heavily armed anti-Gaddafi fighters tightened their siege of the ousted Libyan leader’s hometown of Sirte on Monday.
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/ 25 September 2011
Libya’s new rulers have unearthed a mass grave of 1 700 prisoners slain by Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in a 1996 uprising.
Hundreds of fighters for Libya’s new rulers thrust into Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte from the east on Sunday, as Nato pounded the coastal city.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has finally returned to Paris for the first time since a sex scandal which scuppered his hopes for the French presidency.