On the fifth day of protests and rioting, the United Nations has condemned the violence and the use of excessive force by security forces.
However, the statement makes no mention of sanctions.
The comments come ahead of a United Nations climate treaty conference in Durban, South Africa next week.
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor conceded on Tuesday that the captured son of Muammar Gaddafi may be tried in Libya rather than in The Hague, meaning he faces the death penalty if convicted.
Saif-al Islam Gadhafi, the son of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, can and will be tried for crimes against humanity in Libya, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo conceded on Tuesday.
The United Nation's weather agency, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), has released a report that suggests the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2010. The report particularly noted the levels of nitrous oxide.
America may seem to be at the forefront of innovation and technology, but when it comes to credit card payment systems, we're still a step behind.
Eritrea has complained to the U.N. Security Council about Kenyan allegations that it sent weapons to Islamist rebels in Somalia, calling for an independent investigation to judge the dispute.
More than a million people in Zimbabwe will require food aid between now and March 2012, a United Nations agency said on Monday, despite recent improvements in the country's grain production.
Nigerian politicians are funding members of a radical Islamist sect responsible for dozens of shootings and bombings this year in the north and capital of Africa's most populous nation, the state security service (SSS) said on Monday.
Libya's prime minister-designate said on Monday he was ready to name a government to steer the country to its first fully democratic elections but gave no details of a line-up that may involve a delicate power balance in a fragile new state.
About three million people were murdered during the nine-month civil war and hundreds of thousands of women were raped.
Three former Khmer Rouge bosses went on trial in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Monday, more than 30 years after millions of people were murdered in the killing fields of Communist Cambodia.
The buses were returning from the holy Islamic pilgrimage site of Mecca in Saudi Arabia and later arrived safely in Turkey.
Moammar Gadhafi information minister Abdullah al-Senoussi was captured alive by Libyan fighters in the south on the country on Sunday.
More people than ever are living with the AIDS virus but this is largely due to better access to drugs that keep HIV patients alive and well for many years, the United Nations AIDS program (UNAIDS) said on Monday.
As Libyan's celebrate Saif al-Islam's Friday capture, it brings to mind the question of what happened to all of Gaddafi's children.
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Angelina Jolie has been doing a humanitarian work for Cambodia for a decade and the Southeast Asian country granted her citizenship in 2005. However, a recent report says that Jolie accidentally purchased land from an official who was charged of crimes against humanity.
Cassava is crucial to the health of Africans, providing much-needed carbohydrates for around 200 million people on the continent.
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Ever since she can remember, Katherine Cummings knew she had been born into the wrong body.
