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Timeline: Libya's civil war nears end

When Libyan government fighters seized the vacant home of Muammar Gaddafi's daughter, Aisha, the wealth and opulence they found sent some of them into a rage.

Celebratory bursts of gunfire and fireworks lit up the skies over Tripoli early Thursday as word spread that Libyan government fighters had captured Moammar Gadhafi's son Mo'tassim in Sirte.

Libyan government fighters captured Moammar Gadhafi's son Mo'tassim in Sirte Wednesday after he tried to escape the battle-torn city in a car, the National Transitional Council said.

One little known fact about Jobs was that he was of partial Arab descent.

Turkish Prime Tayyip Erdogan visited South Africa on Tuesday, the latest stop in a diplomatic drive into the resource-rich continent whose attention is increasingly fixed on emerging market relationships rather than old commercial ties to Europe.

Moammar Gadhafi is believed to be hiding near the southwestern town of Ghadamis near the Algerian border under the protection of Tuareg tribesmen, a senior Libyan military official said.

U.S. hijacker and convicted killer George Wright, who has managed to remain a fugitive for 40 years, was caught in Portugal, police said on Tuesday.

Africa is starting to appear on the radar screens of western retailers as they look for the next growth opportunity in emerging markets while having to cope with subdued consumer spending at home.

After 41 years on the run since escaping a New Jersey prison, George Wright, a most-wanted killer, has been caught in Portugal. The FBI along with U.S. Marshals Service and the New Jersey Department of Corrections made a joint announcement of the apprehension of Wright, 68, on Tuesday.

Libya's interim rulers said Sunday they had found a mass grave containing the bodies of 1,270 inmates killed by Muammar Gaddafi's security forces in a 1996 massacre at a Tripoli prison.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN General Assembly on September 22 to make a plea for Palestinian statehood.

Diehard loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi threw rockets, mortars and heavy gunfire at Libyan fighters who pushed into two besieged towns on Friday in a bid to end months of civil war and capture key figures from the old ruling system.

Libyan transitional forces besieging a bastion of forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday gave residents two days to leave before a threatened onslaught, and fears rose for the fate of civilians trapped in the last redoubts of the fallen strongman.

A timeline of Moammar Gadhafi's rise to power and this his fall from power.

Libya's interim leader has made his first public speech in Tripoli, warning against reprisals after Moammar Gadhafi loyalists struck out at the revolutionaries pursuing them.

Speculations about Gadhafi's son Saadi's refuge in Niger finally ended with the confirmation of the news by Marou Adamou, Niger's justice minister and government spokesman on Sunday.

Forces of Libya's new rulers were meeting ferocious street-by-street resistance Monday morning in Bani Walid from Moammar Gadhafi's forces, but were edging toward his birthplace of Sirte.

Libya's new rulers said they were holding back an assault on one of the last bastions loyal to Muammar Gaddafi but were edging towards the ousted ruler's birthplace of Sirte.

Libya's new rulers said Sunday night they were holding back an assault on one of the last bastions loyal to Moammar Gadhafi but were edging toward Sirte. Niger said Sunday one of the fugitive former leader's sons, Saadi Gadhafi, had turned up there.

Libya's interim government is drafting a proposal that would shrink the responsibilities of the National Oil Corp (NOC) to make it a purely commercial organisation, a member of the interim government has told Reuters.