Despite claims by Libya's interim government that dictator Moammar Gadhafi was killed in crossfire after revolutionary fighters captured him Thursday, a Libyan rebel has confessed on camera to the killing.
Members of National Nurses United are rallying outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office after police arrested two nurses and a union organizer at an Occupy Chicago protest in Grant Park on Saturday.
Libya's interim rulers ended the public display of the bodies of Muammar Gaddafi, his son and army chief on Monday after four days in which thousands of Libyans came to see for themselves that the dictator was really dead.
Moammar Gadhafi's wife is calling on the United Nations to investigate the death of the fighter Moammar and Mutassim.
The transitional government leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil declared Sunday the end of Libya's eight-month-long war and set out a vision for a post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya that will have an Islamist tint.
Moammar Gadhafi's cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head, the chief pathologist who performed the autopsy confirmed on Sunday.
Argentina's center-leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, won a landslide re-election victory Sunday as voters credited her unconventional policies for a long economic boom.
Argentina's fiery center-leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, swept to a landslide re-election victory Sunday, crowning a comeback that seemed unthinkable for much of her turbulent first term.
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.
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.
They were the leaders, the rulers of their countries. Yet, they were overthrown as a result of their own horrendous deeds and merciless killings.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Friday to condemn Yemen’s bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters and endorsed an initiative aimed at securing President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s commitment to leave office.
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.
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.
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.
Moammar Gadhafi is dead, but the actual details of what happened between Gadhafi, alive, being pulled from a sewage pipe and his body arriving in Misrata are still unclear.
Don't shoot, don't shoot were the last words of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi who was known for savage killing of dissidents during his reign of 42 years in the North African country.
The Red Cross reports that they are still finding mass grave sites from the Libyan dictator's reign, with dead bodies buried or burned near warehouses, hospitals, and roadsides. Over 13 mass grave sites have been uncovered since Gadhafi was ousted from power, including the remains of some 1,200 political prisoners from the Abu Salim massacre in 1996. [WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES]
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday said now that Moammar Gadhafi is dead, Libya has an opportunity to determine its own destiny. The Libyan government announced Gadhafi's death on Thursday after the ousted dictator was killed in what the interim Prime Minister said was crossfire between transitional government troops and those loyal to Gadhafi.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had just returned from chemotherapy treatments in Cuba after being diagnosed with cancer, was a close friend and colleague of Moammar Gadhafi. He has defended the Libyan leader since the start of the uprisings in February, and accused NATO of starting a people's revolution to access Libya's oil.
The president of the U.S., Barack Obama, delivered the following speech on the death of Moammar Gaddafi this afternoon from the White House.
Medical examiners in Misrata have determined that Gadhafi's cause of death was two bullets wounds.