A group of American politicians is demanding the Lockerbie bomber is returned to jail and has branded the process which led to his release as "incredibly flawed".

The Lockerbie bomber was said to be close to death today after a rapid deterioration in his health.

A review of US government records found no information about BP attempting to influence the release of the Lockerbie bomber, a committee hearing in America was told.

A cancer doctor involved in discussions leading up to the release of the Lockerbie bomber said today the medical portion of the application was a "fair reflection" of specialist advice.

SCOTLAND’S Roman Catholic leader attacked America’s “culture of vengeance” yesterday as he defended the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

The row over the release of the Lockerbie bomber intensified today after former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband claimed it was “clearly wrong”.

A UK public inquiry should be held into the release of the Lockerbie bomber, a backbench Tory MP said today.

Fresh calls were made today for the release of the Lockerbie bomber's medical records after reports that he could be dead within a month.

A US senator today demanded the return of the Lockerbie bomber to prison in Scotland.

A woman whose brother died in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, said she and another victim’s relative met with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, whose country has been blamed for the attack.

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi today attacked the United Nations, branding the Security Council the “terror council”.

Protests will greet Colonel Muammar Gaddafi as he heads to the United Nations in New York today.

BRITAIN’S prime minister sought yesterday to beat back criticism surrounding the release of the Lockerbie bomber, insisting that he gave no assurances to Libya’s leaders that the bomber would be freed in exchange for oil contracts.

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown broke his silence on the Lockerbie bomber yesterday, saying he was repulsed by the hero’s welcome Libya gave the convicted killer and insisting he played no role in Scotland’s much-criticised decision to free him.

President Barack Obama led the US in voicing condemnation over the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi.

SCOTTISH Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill yesterday decided to release Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a 57-year-old Libyan national and former intelligence agent who was sentenced to a 27-year term in 2001 for his role in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, in which 270 people, the majority of them Americans, died.

AN APPEAL into the conviction of a Libyan man jailed for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie got under way in a packed courtroom yesterday.

TWENTY years have passed since Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the skies over the small town of Lockerbie.

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi failed in his bid to be freed on bail today after judges in Edinburgh rejected his application to be freed on 'compassionate grounds'.

A “compelling case” exists for releasing the cancer-stricken Lockerbie bomber on bail pending his appeal, a Scottish court heard today.

TOP US diplomat Condoleezza Rice will make a landmark trip to Libya this week, the first by a US secretary of state in more than half a century.

NOW that World Airways has decided to pull out of Shannon (with more carriers of US troops in the war on terror to follow), I wonder if the America-haters have cut off their noses to spite their faces.

The United States has decided to restore normal diplomatic relations with Libya after more than 25 years.

British judge Rosalyn Higgins was elected president of the International Court of Justice and will become the first woman to hold the position, the court said in a statement from Amsterdam, Netherlands today.

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi expressed regret today that former US President Ronald Reagan died without ever standing trial for 1986 air strikes he ordered that killed the Libyan leader’s adopted daughter and 36 other people.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised today to convey Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi’s desire to normalise relations with the United States to President George Bush.

A £1.7bn (€2.4bn) deal to compensate the families of 270 victims killed in the Lockerbie bombing has been agreed by Libya, it was announced today.

Libya is willing to pay more than £1.5bn (€2.25bn) to the families of victims of Pan Am Flight 103 after accepting “civil responsibility” for the 1988 explosion over Lockerbie.

The UN Human Rights Commission today elected a Libyan diplomat as this year’s president, despite objections from the US and other Western countries.

Abu Nidal, formerly the world’s most wanted terrorist, committed suicide as officials waited to take him to court, the head of Iraqi intelligence said today.

Libya’s preliminary €2.9bn offer to families of 270 people killed in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 is not the only step needed for a lifting of sanctions against the country, the US administration has said.

Negotiators are close to an agreement on the amount of compensation Libya will offer families of the 270 people killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, a lawyer involved in the talks said today.

Thousands of Libyans marched peacefully today against a Scottish appeals court decision to uphold the conviction of a former Libyan intelligence agent in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

Relatives of the victims of the Lockerbie bombing are travelling to Holland for the first stage of the appeal of the Libyan convicted of the atrocity.

A Scottish court today convicted Libyan intelligence officer Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi of murder in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie that killed 270 people.