How Britain courted, armed and trained a Libyan monster

 Printed on gilt-edged card embossed with the Royal coat of arms, the invitation from Britain’s man in Tripoli was to the social highlight of the diplomatic calendar. “On the...

The marine biodiversity of the Maltese Islands is constantly being revised with new species additions being continuously recorded.

 The marine biodiversity of the Maltese Islands is constantly being revised with new species additions being continuously recorded. As the Mediterranean warms up, an increasing number of non-indigenous marine...

NTC forces assault Gaddafi city

 Fighters for Libya's interim rulers entered Muammar Gaddafi's hometown Sirte on Saturday in a surprise assault that NATO said it backed to halt brutal acts by followers of the...

Tunisia Arrests Libyan Premier

 Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, a spokesman for the National Transitional Council said the detention of former Libyan Prime Minister Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi was of great importance towards efforts to...

Muammar Gaddafi has fled Sabha

 The National Transitional Council are investigating an unconfirmed report that Muammar Gaddafi has fled from Sabha, NTC spokesman reports.  NTC spokesman also states that Libyan government forces now control...

Gadhafi spotted as rebels capture parts of south Libya town

 Fugitive Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi was spotted in the southern city of Sabha a few days ago, the regional daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on Tuesday, citing an eyewitness. The...

66 year-old Daniel Healy was found by police to have 100kg of cannabis resin, said to be worth £500,000, hidden in the water tank of the campervan he was driving

 66 year-old Daniel Healy – or ‘Mad Danny’ as he is known in Ardfern in Mid Argyll – was arrested last week, as he went to drive across the...

Battle in Gaddafi bastion ends in chaotic retreat

 Libyan interim government forces fled on Sunday in a chaotic retreat from the town of Bani Walid, after failing in yet another attempt to storm the final bastions of...

Tony Blair flew to Libya for 'secret meetings' with Colonel Gaddafi

 former prime minister arranged to fly to Tripoli on Colonel Gaddafi's private jet for secret talks in June 2008 and April 2009. Tony Blair insists his talks with Colonel...

Moroccan cops seize Scot caught with £500k of cannabis resin

 holidaymaker is being held in a hell-hole Moroccan jail after being caught in a camper van with £500,000 of hashish. Daniel Healy, 66, was arrested last week as he...

Libyan Forces Capture Sirte Airport

 Libyan opponents of Muammar Qaddafi captured the Al-Gurdabia airbase south of Sirte as fighters faced fierce resistance from loyalist forces in his remaining strongholds. The airbase outside Qaddafi’s birthplace...

Muammar Gaddafi forces strike back against rebels

 LIBYAN rebels loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC) are struggling to regroup outside Bani Walid after being driven back by fierce resistance from followers of Muammar Gaddafi. There...

Sahel drug gang battle - 4 dead

 Four people were killed when drug traffickers clashed in the desert zone between Mali and Algeria, over the spoils from a massive drug sale, officials said on Monday. A...

Moroccan maids may ‘spell’ trouble, warn some women

 Saudi women have voiced reservations against recruiting domestic helpers from Morocco as suggested by the chairman of the Saudi recruitment committee. This is due to an old belief that...

Pirates kill Brit David Tebbutt and kidnap wife

 BRITISH tourist has been killed and his wife kidnapped after suspected Somali pirates stormed their villa at an exclusive Kenyan resort. They were attacked by at least five men...

Saadi Gaddafi, third son of the former Libyan leader, has fled the country into neighbouring Niger,

Saadi Gaddafi in Sydney in 2005 Photo: REUTERS His flight reduces the retinue of close family members sticking by Col Gaddafi to just two sons, Saif al-Islam and Mutassim, and...

Spanish warship rescues French hostage from pirates

 Troops from a Spanish warship stormed a pirate skiff in the Gulf of Aden Saturday and rescued a French hostage missing from her yacht but found no trace of...

Soldiers may face Mousa prosecution

 British soldiers could face a fresh prosecution over the brutal death of an Iraqi civilian after a scathing report condemned the "shameful" abuse of prisoners in UK custody. A...

NIGER'S FOREIGN MINISTER CLAIMS GADDAFI WAS NOT ON CONVOY

 Neither Gaddafi nor any of his sons were on the convoy that arrived in Niger from Libya. The statement was made by Niger Foreign Minister, Mohammed Bazoum, on the...

The new Libya won't trust Britain so easily now | News

 The documents revealing the cosy relationship between top British and Libyan intelligence officials are embarrassing not just because they confirm Britain's rendition of Islamist terror suspects, including Abdel Hakim...

talkSPORt to be broadcast to British troops stationed overseas

 talkSPORT commentary on the Rugby World Cup 2011 is to be broadcast to British soldiers serving overseas, the British Forces Broadcasting Service has announced. Coverage commences on September 9...

The husband of a woman who fell to her death during a holiday in Morocco remained upstairs in their apartment while she lay dying in the street below

The husband of a woman who fell to her death during a holiday in Morocco remained upstairs in their apartment while she lay dying in the street below, according...

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi has blamed his high-profile brother for the collapse of talks with Libya's new rulers

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi has blamed his high-profile brother for the collapse of talks with Libya's new rulers, CNN television reported late on Sunday.Saadi Gaddafi told CNN in a...

MI6 worked with Gaddafi government on rendition operation

 senior officer in MI6 wrote a congratulatory letter to Moussa Koussa, then head of Libyan foreign intelligence and later foreign minister, on the safe arrival from Malaysia thanks to...

suicide car bomber kills three policemen and injures seven at a checkpoint in the port city of Aden on the Arabian Sea.

 A suicide car bomber kills three policemen and injures seven at a checkpoint in the port city of Aden on the Arabian Sea. Gunmen firing their weapons drive through...

The leaders of Tunisia and the Libyan opposition discuss their shared security concerns,

 The leaders of Tunisia and the Libyan opposition discuss their shared security concerns, vowing to support each other as they rebuild their countries following decades of authoritarian rule. Mahmoud...

Latest developments in Arab world's unrest

 Syrian security forces searching for an alleged high-profile defector from President Bashar Assad's regime kill two people after storming a northern village Saturday, raising the death toll from the...

Libya rebels say talks over Bani Walid have failed

 NEGOTIATIONS aimed at peacefully ending a standoff outside one of Muammar Gaddafi's remaining strongholds southeast of Tripoli have failed and Libyan rebels are waiting for the green light to...

extraordinary extent of co-operation between MI6, the CIA and Libyan intelligence during the rule of Col Muammar Gaddafi was exposed on Saturday by the release of secret documents found in Tripoli.

cache of papers found at the intelligence headquarters dating from the time it was run by Moussa Koussa, who later became foreign minister and defected in March, showed Libya...

CIA conducted “extraordinary rendition” in luxury aircraft

As part of its infamous “extraordinary rendition” programme, the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States kidnapped and covertly transported persons across various countries using luxury jets supplied with...

Gaddafi Gang Rejects Rebel Deadline

Libya’s Gaddafi loyalists have rejected an ultimatum by rebels that called for their surrender or else threatened a major new attack on Sirte, Gaddafi’s birthplace and final stronghold. “No...

Libya's National Transitional Council believes the fugitive former dictator Moamar Gaddafi is in the loyalist-held town of Bani Walid, southeast of the capital, Tripoli.

Libya's National Transitional Council believes the fugitive former dictator Moamar Gaddafi is in the loyalist-held town of Bani Walid, southeast of the capital, Tripoli....