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As the quest for Gaddafi intensifies, world powers are already planning their next strategic move to optimise their relationship with Libya, strategizing their next moves for relations with Libya, proving that the race for the best deals has now truly started.

Amy Winehouse's cause of death remains a mystery, until inquest results are revealed in October.

As Anna Hazare refuses to end his hunger strike, the Indian government, feeling the pressure, has decided is meeting to meet with of all major opposition parties to arrive at a compromise that will satisfy the 74-year-old Gandhian activist.

Gaddafi's compound might now be in the hands of the rebels, but the leader is not yet ready to relinquish power.

After months of conflict, the rebels control most of Tripoli, but there is still no news of Moammar Gaddafi and his followers are still setting up resistance.

People on the East Coast of the Unites States are still in a state of shock after a magnitude-5.8 earthquake centred on the state of Virginia was felt in Washington and New York.

North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il arrived in Siberia Tuesday, making his first visit to the country and old cold war ally in nine years.

The search for Colonel Gadhafi might soon be over after an al-Jazeera correspondent said rebels are only 500m from Col Gaddafi's heavily fortified Bab al-Aziziya compound in the centre of Tripoli, but the civilians living in Tripoli are still getting caught up in the conflict.

Phillip Seaton and wife Deborah have sued a surgeon for "loss of service, love and affection", after Mr Seaton's penis was amputated during an operation which he said was done without his consent.

Saif al-Islam, appearing in the streets of Tripoli Tuesday morning, proclaimed: "We broke the backbone of the rebels. It was a trap. We gave them a hard time. So we are winning." Could he be right?

Hurricane Irene is set to hit Haiti, the Bahamas and Florida in the next few days, forecasters warned last night.

Since Amy Winehouse's demise last month, her father Mitch Winehouse spoke of his plans to set up a foundation in her name to help drug users.

The Australian parliament has found itself in the middle of a new sex scandal after Craig Thomson, the former secretary of the Health Services in 2005, has been accused of withdrawing money from his union credit card that was then used to procure the services of prostitutes, while working for the government.

More than 2,000 of bullet-riddled bodies were found buried in dozens of unmarked graves across Kashmir, an Indian government human rights commission inquiry has concluded.

As the 41-year-old regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi is falling apart, leaving space for the National Transitional Council to take over the country, analysts are already attempting to look at the consequences of the fall of the man that managed to cling to power for so many years.

The affair in which Nafissatou Diallo accuses Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund,(IMF), of forcing her into oral sex and trying to rape her on May 14 in his New York hotel suite, has made the headlines for more than three months, but sources say the case is about to be dropped.

While the world asks what will happen to Moammar Gadhafi in the coming hours or days, rumors about his whereabouts and his next move are rampant.

Sounds of intense fighting echoed Monday morning around Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi's compound in central Tripoli as his forces continued to fight rebels who swept into the capital Sunday night.

The Notting Hill carnival will see the highest number of police officers on duty in the event's 47-year history in the wake of the London riots, reports the Mail Online.

Hundreds of rebel fighters entered the centre of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, late on Sunday and their battle to overthrow the 42-year rule of Muammar Gaddafi looks set to end in their favour as reports of Gaddafi's sons being arrested emerged.

The embers of the London riots are yet to be put out. The police, who are investigating the riots have released further images of the riots.

Thousands of people at the Bornemouthe air show watched in horror as a RED Arrows pilot was killed Saturday when his plan crash landed at the show. The pilot steered his Hawk jet away from houses seconds before it plunged to earth.

The U.S. state of Virginia has executed a 30-year-old convicted of raping and killing an elderly Virginia woman. He was killed by lethal injection on Thursday, the first inmate put to death in that state this year, the attorney general's office said.

Officials say a suicide bomber struck a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring more than a 100.

The United Nations announced on Friday it would mount an operation to evacuate thousands of foreigners trapped in Tripoli as the rebels prepare for a potential assault on the capital.

Violence and tensions between Israel and Palestinian militants are taking an alarming turn after Gaza militants launched barrages of rockets into Israel, while Israeli aircraft struck targets in the territory.

Medical tests on children living in three towns near the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant revealed a shocking 45 per cent of those surveyed suffered low-level thyroid radiation exposure, Japan's government said in a statement.

North Korea announced Friday it is ready to resume talks with the U.S. on repatriating the remains of troops killed during the Korean War, after negotiations stalled in 2005 as tensions between the two countries mounted over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.

Fashion retailer Zara is under investigation in Brazil after a local supplier accused it of using slave labour.