LIBYA

Libya's stock market will be ready to resume trading in about one month and hopes to attract more foreign investors, the head of the exchange's Benghazi branch told Reuters on Sunday.

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.

In August, as rebels fought forces loyal to President Muammar Gaddafi, two representatives of a British business consortium took a rather long and arduous ferry journey from Malta to the North African country.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's United Nations speech on Thursday angered a number of world leaders, especially the delegates from the United States, who walked out of the General Assembly while Ahmadinejad soliloquized.

Insisting that the United Kingdom is still a top-tier military power, West decried the aforementioned European countries as “second rate.”

Libya's interim rulers said on Thursday they had further consolidated their control over Sahara desert towns that had been among Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds, and said Gaddafi himself was running out of places to hide.

Libya will likely name a new government within 10 days, interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said, raising hopes of political progress in the fractured country weeks after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.

The head of Arab TV channel Al Jazeera said on Tuesday he was leaving the network, but gave no reason for his departure at a time when the station's coverage has played an important role in unprecedented protest movements rocking the Arab world.

The African Union officially recognized the National Transitional Council as the legitimate government of Libya. South African President Jacob Zuma made the announcement on Tuesday.

Seventeen foreign mercenaries which Muammar Gaddafi's spokesman said had been captured, including French and British personnel, were being questioned in the Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid in Libya and will be shown publicly soon.

Libya's new flag flew at the United Nations on Tuesday for the first time since Muammar Gaddafi's overthrow as U.S. President Barack Obama called for the last of the deposed leader's loyalists to stop fighting.

The African Union (AU) recognised the National Transitional Council (NTC) as Libya's de facto government on Tuesday, removing another piece of diplomatic support for ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Ralph Nader and a group of progressive cohorts are seeking a Democrat who can challenge President Barack Obama for the 2012 Democratic nomination for president.

Finally, there's some good news for U.S. motorists. Gas prices, down about 10 cents per gallon in the past month to an average of $3.60 per gallon for regular unleaded, are likely to continue to decline, assuming no oil disruptions from major oil producers or a large storm in the Gulf of Mexico.

Blair was flown to Tripoli on Gaddafi’s private jets at the Colonel’s expense.

Libya's interim leaders failed to agree a new cabinet on Sunday and the forces that forced Muammar Gaddafi from power remained bogged down in fighting with troops loyal to the former ruler.

Libya's interim leaders failed to agree a new Cabinet Sunday and the forces that forced Moammar Gadhafi from power remained bogged down in fighting with troops loyal to the former ruler.

The energy-thirsty United States is on the hunt for a game-changing energy source or energy usage technology -- and batteries and fuel cells are strong candidates. But their mass use could be 20 years away. Meanwhile, a conventional source may bridge that gap, or provide even more upside: natural gas.

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.

Photos of the final phase of the Libyan revolution

The miners became trapped almost 300 feet underground when a tunnel collapsed and flooded the Gleision Colliery near Pontardawe on Thursday morning.