Libya’s interim council hopes to seize one of Muammar Gaddafi’s last strongholds without resistance as it tries to control the entire country.
Libya’s new leadership says it is committed to democracy, while it prioritises areas for spending the billions released from Gaddafi’s frozen assets.
Libyan rebel forces were converging on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte on Monday, hoping to deliver the coup de grace of their revolution.
Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, gave evidence in the British Parliament on Tuesday on the phone-hacking and corruption scandal.
Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the <i>News of the World</i> and a favoured lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch, was arrested on Sunday.
Western warplanes bombed Muammar Gaddafi’s tanks and artillery in eastern Libya to try to break a battlefield stalemate.
Muammar Gaddafi’s tanks and other army vehicles smouldered on a strategic road in east Libya on Sunday after Western powers launched air strikes.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces pushed into the rebel-held city of Benghazi on Saturday, defying world demands for an immediate ceasefire.
A trickle of Libyan refugees has become a flood after Muammar Gaddafi’s troops entered the rebel bastion of Ajdabiyah, a key city.
Libya’s army pounded an opposition-held city in the country’s west and battled fighters trying to block its advance on a rebel bastion in the east.
Muammar Gaddafi’s forces pushed eastwards towards the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi and his government predicted victory within days.
France is stepping up efforts to persuade world powers to impose a no-fly zone over Libya, as Muammar Gaddafi’s troops battled rebel fighters.
Britain and France spearheaded a drive at the United Nations for a no-fly zone over Libya after Muammar Gaddafi’s warplanes attacked rebels.
Libyan forces closed in on the western town of Zawiyah on Saturday after rebels drove them from the centre in fierce fighting.
Muammar Gaddafi’s forces wrested back part of a town in western Libya from rebels, but his foes said they had seized the oil port of Ras Lanuf.
Muammar Gaddafi struck at rebel control of a key Libyan coastal road for a second day on Thursday but received a warning he would be held to account.
London commuters struggled to get to work on Monday as workers on the British capital’s underground rail network held their second strike in a month.
Gordon Brown goes into a debate on Thursday trying to rescue his party while fending of a gaffe in which he called one of his voters "bigoted".
Britain’s main political parties turned their focus to crime, health and childcare on Tuesday.
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Turkey declined on Wednesday to give Baghdad a timetable for the withdrawal of troops fighting Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq, resisting pressure from the United States and other allies to end the offensive quickly. Thousands of Turkish troops crossed the border on Thursday to root out Kurdistan Workers’ Party fighters.