Libya

Reports coming from Tripoli suggest that fugitive leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has finally been captured after being wounded in both legs, according to Reuters.

Libyan fighters have overrun the last positions of the Gaddafi loyalists holding out in the city of Sirte, so with the colonel's birthplace now controlled by the NTC, can the transitional government finally say that Libya is liberated?

With clashes reported in Tripoli, Sirte still embattled and Muammar Gaddafi still at large, observers fear the long and prolonged confrontation opposing the National Transitional Council (NTC) and the Gaddafi loyalists could plunge the country into chaos.

Libyan revolutionary forces have bulldozed the green walls surrounding deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli.

Libya's National Transitional Council has said it knows the former dictator's whereabouts and is tracking him by satellite.

Unconfirmed reports that one of Col Muammar Gaddafi's sons has been captured in Sirte have caused confusion after a Libyan spokesman said that there was no information that Mutassim Gaddafi had been seized.

Russia said on Tuesday it is close to finalising a huge gas supply deal with China, in what would be a landmark trade agreement, but while officials insist cooperation between the two wary neighbours is only set to improve, lengthy negotiations prove the distrust is still hampering the Sino-Russian relationship.

Libya's former foreign minister Moussa Koussa has obtained a Jordanian passport and is planning to move to Amman from Qatar, Arabic daily al-Arab al-Youm reports.

Twitter has emerged victorious at the T3 awards after scooping the digital media service of the year, beating Facebook and YouTube to the post thanks to its first class iPhone, Android and iPad apps.

Justice may still come to bear for the former 'King of Kings' .

Muammar Gaddafi is back in the spotlight, calling on Libyans to take to the streets and wage a campaign of civil disobedience against the country's new leaders, and shows he after all approves of revolution, just when they are not against him, that is.

A 47,000 tonne container vessel containing heavy fuel oil is leaking its contents after striking a reef off the coast of New Zealand.

At a time when the mood is gloom with unemployment figures rising and a stagnating economy, David Cameron urged Britons to "show the world some fight" in order to bounce back from troubled times, but his speech failed to reassure.

As the Battle for Sirte continues, more and more residents of the city which also is Muammar Gaddafi's birth-place, have started to blame Libya's new transitional government and its Western allies for the death and destruction brought on their city following weeks of fighting.

Catgate, which derived from a Theresa May's claim that a Bolivian immigrant avoided deportation due to his pet cat, has rocked the cabinet and the Home Secretary's credibility, with the judiciary even commenting on the affair.

The transitional government's forces have been battling pro-Gaddafi forces in Sirte, and it seems that bringing most of their artillery material might have paid off as they insist they were able to advance several km (miles) into the city, capturing the southern district of Bouhadi.

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi claimed that his role in the attack has been given too much weight and the truth will surface soon.

Forces of the Libyan transitional government have launched what a frontline commander says is their final assault on the pro-Gaddafi stronghold of Sirte, after a two-day cease-fire.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, accompanied by his foreign minister, paid a visit on Sept. 15 to Tripoli, the recently liberated capital of Libya. This was the first visit there by the head of state of a key European country since the deposition of former Libyan President Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

Unconfirmed reports that Ibrahim was dressed as a woman as he attempted to flee Sirte, where the NTC fighters are currently fighting pro-Gaddafi forces emerged just after Mustafa bin Dardef a commander for the NTC's Zintan brigade said: "Misrata fighters contacted us and gave us the information that Mussa Ibrahim has been captured."

With the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back on the main international agenda, the role of the UN quartet charged of facilitating peace in the Middle East by the UN and more specifically of Tony Blair has also been put on the spotlight.

While the situation in Libya is still far from stable as the National Transitional Council forces are still fighting pro-Gaddafi forces and the new government struggles to implement the transitional plan regulating the transitional phase, emerging political voices are starting to surface. For example include the Berbers, who after fighting with the NTC now want to be assured more political space in the 'new' Libya.

While officials from the National Transitional Council (NTC) have now said that fugitive former leader Moammar Gaddafi could be hiding in the western town of Ghadamis near the Algerian border, the Colonel has turned to a jihadist rhetoric calling his supporters to sacrifice themselves.

Muammar Gaddafi is believed to be hiding near the Algerian border in the town of Ghadamis, according to the Libyan official leading the hunt for the former Libyan dictator.

Libyan authorities have said they will co-operate with Scottish prosecutors and police investigating the Lockerbie bombing, the Foreign Office have said.

Defence Analyst Francis Tusa has claimed that the Libyan campaign can cost £1.75 billion to British government.

Anonymous has joined the thousands of individuals and organisations still convinced Troy Davis was innocent, promising a series of revenge attacks for what it and many others take as an unjust, state-sponsored killing.

Anonymous has joined the thousands of individuals and organizations protesting Georgia's execution of Troy Davis, promising a series of revenge attacks in a number of statements issued via its AnonymousIRC Twitter account.

Palestinians watched Barack Obama's section of the speech about Palestine en masse and as they listened the U.S. president telling the UN General Assembly that the Palestinians deserve their own state, but that this would only be achieved through talks with Israel, many still wondered why a country that supports change in Syria, Libya and Egypt, still threatens to veto their statehood bid.

Despite the successful ousting of Gaddafi, the NATO-operation in Libya is still making waves as two French lawyers have indicated their intention to prosecute Nicholas Sarkozy for committing war crimes in Libya, following claims that civilian deaths caused by the NATO bombings in Tripoli could prove more than first assumed.