Moammar Gadhafi and his son Mo'tassim were buried at dawn Tuesday in an unknown location, ending a wrangle over their rotting bodies, a Libyab official said.
Ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will be buried Tuesday in a secret desert grave, a National Transitional Council official said Monday night, ending a wrangle over his rotting corpse that led many to fear for Libya's governability.
A letter released from the Vatican on Monday calls for sweeping reforms to the global economy for the return of a system in favor of ethical behavior and achievement of a universal common good for both rich and poor countries.
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.
Moderate Islamists said on Monday their party appeared to be ahead in Tunisia's first free election since an uprising earlier this year that set off the Arab Spring revolts, hinting at a shift in a country long known for its secularism.
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.
Brent crude oil rose above $110 a barrel on Monday after stronger Chinese manufacturing data suggested China's economy may not be in as much danger as feared, supporting fuel consumption and outweighing fears over weak European data.
Moammar Gadhafi's cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head, the chief pathologist who performed the autopsy confirmed on Sunday.
As the Duchess of Cambridge plans to announce the charitable causes and organisations she plans to support in January, 2011, she has been advised not to support the United Nations' affiliated Blue Heart Campaign.
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.
The hypocrisy and opportunism in other capitals don't absolve Gadhafi of the crimes he committed against ordinary Libyans, against humanity. But there is something sinister and sleazy about the current consensus in world capitals about how utterly wretched Gadhafi was.
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.
Kenya must take care not to let its cross-border incursion into Somalia to secure its border from al Qaeda-linked militants turn into a drawn-out campaign, former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan said on Thursday.
Now the focus in Libya will surely move to the next step for the interim National Transitional Council (NTC) and the preparation for building a new country.
After 42 years, Moammar Gadhafi era is now finally complete, with the former dictator either dead or captured.
Pakistan hopes to win a seat on the U.N. Security Council as a temporary member alongside archrival India when the United Nations holds annual elections to the 15-nation body on Friday.
The world population will reach 7 billion people on October 31, 2011. The milestone will be marked by achievements, setbacks, and paradoxes.
Major investors want United Nations to create a binding international treaty for climate change.
