Libyans should be allowed to vote within eight months to elect a national council that would draft a new constitution and form an interim government, Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said on Saturday.
Jack Kim
Oct 22, 2011
Libyan forces guarding Muammar Gaddafi's body in a cold storage room on Saturday let in members of the public to view the deposed leader for a second day, but the wounds that may hold the clue to how he died were covered up.
Jack Kim
Oct 22, 2011
As Muammar Gaddafi lay still unburied, Libya's outgoing premier said the coming days posed a crucial test of resolve for the new men of power, who are wrangling over the body, and about a formal end to the war.
Jack Kim
Oct 22, 2011
The Tea Party Nation blogger who said U.S. small businesses should stop hiring new employees in order to ensure President Barack Obama will not be re-elected expands on her statement. Melissa Brookstone said a global socialist movement is well underway and Obama is connected to it.
Ashley Portero
Oct 22, 2011
Angelina Jolie is making her directorial debut in December with an extremely powerful and complex film, In the Land of Blood and Honey.
Cavan Sieczkowski
Oct 22, 2011
When Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril announced Moammar Gadhafi's death Thursday, he began with the words: We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. That must have made many in Libya and in the U.S. feel very good: it never hurts to be reminded that justice exists.
Elisha Maldonado
Oct 22, 2011
The popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world this year have slowed economies across the region, and now jobs, better governance, and investment are needed, speakers at the World Economic Forum in Jordan said Saturday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 22, 2011
The popular uprisings that have swept the Arab world this year have slowed economies across the region, and jobs, better governance and investment are needed, speakers at the World Economic Forum in Jordan said on Saturday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 22, 2011
Graphic photographs and video footage of the violent death of Col. Moammar Gadhafi,who was executed by a mob of rebel fighters near his hometown of Sirte, shows the magnitude of humiliation the Libyan dictator suffered in his final moments.
Amrutha Gayathri
Oct 22, 2011
NATO called an end to its air war in Libya, and the clan of Moammar Gadhafi demanded a chance to bury the body that lay on display in a meat locker after a death as brutal and chaotic as his 42-year rule.
J.J. McGrath
Oct 22, 2011
After ruling Libya for 42 years, his era of brutality and hegemony ended on Thursday, as Libyan fighters captured Col. Moammar Gadhafi in the town of Sirte. He was found hiding with others, in a hole, from where he was dragged through the roads and then brutally shot in his head. As soon as news of his death hit television and news channels, Libyans and supporters from all over the world started celebrating the end of the tyrant's reign.
sangeeta mukherjee
Oct 22, 2011
The hypocrisy and opportunism in other capitals don't absolve Gadhafi of the crimes he committed against ordinary Libyans, against humanity. But there is something sinister and sleazy about the current consensus in world capitals about how utterly wretched Gadhafi was.
Jijo Jacob
Oct 22, 2011
NATO called an end to its air war in Libya, and the clan of Muammar Gaddafi demanded a chance to bury the body that lay on display in a meat locker after a death as brutal and chaotic as his 42-year rule.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 22, 2011
Just a few moments before his death, former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi told the rebel troops who captured him from a drainage pipe in his hometown of Sirte Thursday: 'Do you know right from wrong?
Bhaskar Prasad
Oct 22, 2011
Reports were initially conflicting, but Gadhafi (Gaddafi) was killed on October 20, 2011 in cross-fire between rebels and loyalist fighters in Libya when the rebels in Gadhafi's birthplace of Sirt attempted to take the ousted colonel, who was wounded, to an ambulance. Libya's interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril told TIME that Gadhafi, who was in hiding in a large sewer pipe in Sirt, did not resist arrest but was carrying a small pistol in his holster.
David Magee
Oct 21, 2011
Muammar Gaddafi made his final dash for freedom shortly before dawn prayers. Libya's leader, a few dozen loyal bodyguards and the head of his now non-existent army Abu Bakr Younis Jabr, broke out of the two-month siege of his hometown Sirte and, forming a convoy of six dozen vehicles, raced through the outskirts to the west.
Jack Kim
Oct 21, 2011
Muammar Gaddafi's body lay in an old meat store on Friday as arguments over a burial, and his killing after being captured, dogged efforts by Libya's new leaders to make a formal start on a new era of democracy.
Jack Kim
Oct 21, 2011
After Moammar Gadhafi of Libya became the latest victim of the Arab Spring uprising, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Iran's leaders may be next.
Dan Rivoli
Oct 21, 2011
Libya's National Oil Corporation has summoned Russia's Gazprom to a meeting in Tripoli to discuss what the Libyans said was a breach of investment obligations -- the first sign the new leaders are prepared to renegotiate Gaddafi-era contracts.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 21, 2011
On the day his father, Moammar Gadhafi, was shot and killed by revolutionary fighters who overran his hometown of Sirte, Mutassim Gadhafi died, too.
Elisha Maldonado
Oct 21, 2011
For the small club of companies who trade the food, fuels and metals that keep the world running, the last decade has been sensational. Driven by the rise of Brazil, China, India and other fast-growing economies, the global commodities boom has turbocharged profits at the world's biggest trading houses.
IBT Staff Reporter
Oct 21, 2011
Moammar Gadhafi is dead, killed Oct. 20 by rebel resistance forces in Libya. The former greater-than-god leader was found cowering in a drainage pipe, begging for mercy. Jacqueline Frazier, a Vermont-born attractive blonde, knew this day would come. She was part of the Gadhafi family's inner circle for seven months.
Cavan Sieczkowski
Oct 21, 2011