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.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has finally returned to Paris for the first time since a sex scandal which scuppered his hopes for the French presidency.
Panama’s ex-strongman Manuel Noriega on looks set return home — and go straight into custody there — after more than two decades in foreign prisons.
Most residents of Ajdabiya voted with their feet and gone to stay in makeshift camps or with relatives in the rebel capital Benghazi or other towns.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki emerged on Monday as a frontrunner after an election seen as a test of the nation’s young democracy.
World leaders on Thursday insisted that the United States credit crunch would not cause an economic crisis but stock markets across the world plummeted yet again as investors remained unconvinced. US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson admitted that American growth will be hit but said the economy would weather the storm.
French presidential rivals Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal waited anxiously on Wednesday for a defeated centrist candidate, whose votes could tip next week’s run-off ballot, to reveal his intentions. Francois Bayrou has come under intense pressure to throw the weight of his seven million voters behind either Sarkozy or Royal.
EADS co-chief executive Noel Forgeard was being questioned on Wednesday by France’s parliamentary finance committee on why he sold millions of euros’ worth of shares in the European aerospace group just before it announced delays in deliveries of its Airbus A380 superjumbo.
The joint head of European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS) rejected on Friday suggestions he had indulged in insider trading knowing the group would announce delivery delays for the Airbus superjumbo which have slashed the value of the business.