LIBYA

Libyan transitional government forces attacked Muammar Gaddafi's security headquarters in the center of his hometown of Sirte Monday, hoping that once the buildings had been captured the fight for the city would be won.

The U.S. Government's unmanned Predator and Reaper drones, which reacked havoc on terrorist organizations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, have apparently been hit by a computer virus. According to reports, the virus infected software at the drones' command center at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada.

Moammar Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte, one of the last bastions of support for the fugitive leader, came under heavy shelling by revolutionary fighters Saturday.

A New York-based crime ring that used forged credit cards to mainly buy and resell Apple products overseas has been busted, police said on Friday in what was described as the largest identity fraud case in U.S. history.

Declaring women's rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize on Friday to three indomitable female campaigners against war and oppression -- a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country's president.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women on Friday for their collective nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work.

Of all the falsehoods to attach themselves to President Barack Obama, perhaps the most outrageous is the one that Mitt Romney trotted out during a foreign policy speech on Friday: that Obama is an America apologist who has undercut the country's military.

It's been nine months since the beginning of the Arab Spring, and North African and The Middle East are still very much in turmoil.

Medvedev seems to be suggesting that Moscow would oppose any attempts by foreign forces to oust the Syrian leader.

Snipers hiding in a mosque and Muammar Gaddafi's favourite summit venue held back Libyan government forces trying to capture his hometown on Thursday, making forecasts of a quick end to the battle look premature.

Volunteers in the embattled city of Sirte are currently caring for 500 ostriches once owned by the Libyan dictator that were left without food or water when loyalists fled the city.

Ron Paul has said that Obama should be impeached for approving the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, and says he supports the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

Libya's top oil body is pursuing international oil firms for bills worth around $6 billion that were left unpaid this year due to U.N. sanctions imposed in March, a source in the National Oil Corporation (NOC) told Reuters this week.

Libyan government forces fought their way, street by street, into the centre of Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace of Sirte on Wednesday after their commanders said the battle for the city was entering its final hours.

Pick-up trucks became a common sight in battle, and could be seen as the symbol of the popular anti-Gadhafi residence. Mechanics attached cannons and rocket launchers to flatbeds and cars carries troops across the country.

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.

Muammar Gaddafi's former prime minister said on Tuesday he believed the deposed leader was still in Libya and would carry on fighting the country's new leaders until the end.

Libya's National Transition Council said they are ready to declare victory after eight months of revolution, once they have captured the city of Sirte.

Intense battle continued in Sirte, the hometown of fallen leader Moammar Gadhafi, resulting in the death of eight fighters of Libya' s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC). Another 39 were wounded.

A Red Cross convoy carrying aid to relieve a humanitarian crisis in Libya's besieged city of Sirte had to turn back on Monday because Libyan interim government forces unleashed a barrage of fire.

What's the lowdown on gasoline prices for U.S. motorists? By and large the story remains encouraging -- a 7-cent drop in prices in a week, and a roughly 21-cent plunge from a month ago, in early September.