LIBYA

President Obama told Jay Leno during his visit to the Tonight Show Tuesday that you never like to see anybody come to the kind of end that Muammar Gaddafi did, but that his death sends a message to other dictators.

President Barack Obama took issue on Tuesday with the broadcasting of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's bloody demise, saying even those who had done terrible things deserved decorum in death.

Moammar Gadhafi's body was buried overnight in a secret location after it had been put on display in a freezer at a shopping centre for several days, a Libyan military council member said Tuesday.

NATO is to formally decide on Wednesday whether to end its mission over Libya now that Muammar Gaddafi is dead and buried and the country's new leaders have declared the nation liberated.

Tunisia's moderate Islamist party on Tuesday claimed a thumping victory in the country's first election, sending a message to the region that once-banned Islamists are challenging for power after the Arab Spring.

President Barack Obama said on Tuesday former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi missed his chance to bring democracy to his country and described his death as a message to dictators around the world.

As Moammar Gadhafi's body is buried in the dessert under an unmarked grave, his son and one time heir Saif al-Islam Gadhafi is preparing to flee Libya, a member of the National Transitional Council has revealed.

With ongoing turmoil in Africa and the Middle East, illegal immigration is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge in Europe.

BP said on Tuesday it wanted to return to Libya and resume oil and gas exploration work, which it halted earlier this year due to the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's rule.

Moammar Gadhafi was buried in an unmarked desert grave at an unknown location early Tuesday morning, as the former Libyan dictator's death awaits investigation.

Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi wrote to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in August begging him to halt a NATO-led intervention that was helping a rebel uprising drive him from power, French weekly Paris Match reported.

Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim were buried in a secret desert location on Tuesday, five days after the desposed Libyan leader was captured, killed and put on grisly public display.

Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mo'tassim were buried in a secret desert location on Tuesday, five days after the deposed Libyan leader was captured, killed and put on grisly public display.

Ennahda has vowed it will not establish an Islamic state, but rather a secular, multi-party democracy.

Moammar Gadhafi, who was shot dead last Thursday, was buried in a secret desert location by Libya's interim government on Tuesday morning. He was laid to rest with Mutassim Gadhafi, his son and the former National Security Adviser of Libya.

The squabble regarding what to be done to the rotting corpse of the former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has come to an end with the dead bodies of Gadhafi and his son finally being buried in a secret desert grave at an unknown location at dawn Tuesday.

The mystery behind the death of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has a new twist, following a leaked video that shows a Libyan freedom fighter claiming he killed Colonel Gadhafi.

Two trusted loyalists of Libya's interim government were handed Muammar Gadhafi's body to bury secretly deep in the Sahara desert on Tuesday after a cleric prayed over his decomposing corpse, an official said.

The body of the late Libyan dictator, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, was buried at a secret location, at dawn on Tuesday, al-Jazeera reported. The burial will, hopefully, end the ongoing wrangle over the amount of time his decomposing body was left to rot by officials of the Libyan interim government.

Moammar Gadhafi and his son Mo'tassim were buried at dawn Tuesday in an unknown location, ending a wrangle over their rotting bodies, a Libyab official said.

Libyan rebels, who captured Moammar Gadhafi from a storm drain outside his hometown of Sirte, allegedly sodomized the former leader with an object just after he was detained.