UKRAINE

Both Gadhafi and the revolutionaries who expelled him have been called war criminals. So who is worse?

U.S. grain and soybean futures rose over 1 percent on Monday in a broad commodities rally as investors bet that European leaders would reach a deal to tackle a euro-zone debt crisis and took heart from an improved manufacturing indicator in China.

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.

Eight months of civil war in Libya ended Thursday with the brutal death of Col. Moammar Gadaffi. With him, ends 42 years of bizarre era of brutality and dictatorship.