Clashes in a western Libyan city left six dead and at least 20 injured, a government spokesman said.

Libya’s rulers have passed new laws aimed at punishing the loyalists of the country’s deposed ruler, Muammar Gaddafi.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called off a planned trip to Libya after a militia group surrounded the headquarters of the caretaker Libyan government.

Muammar Gaddafi’s son and former heir apparent Saif al-Islam will be put on trial inside Libya and there will be a verdict before mid-June, a Libyan official said.

Mauritania said today it has arrested former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, who was one of the most prominent figures from the ousted regime of Muammar Gaddafi and is wanted by the International Criminal Court.

Libyan leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil said he can not use force against tribal leaders who are moving toward semi-autonomy for their oil-rich eastern region.

Tribal leaders and militia commanders have declared oil-rich eastern Libya a semi-autonomous state, a unilateral move that the interim head of state called a “dangerous” conspiracy by Arab nations to tear the country apart six months after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.

Tribal leaders and militia commanders have declared a semiautonomous region in oil-rich eastern Libya, it has emerged.

Armed militias now rule much of Libya, Amnesty International have said.

Libya has demanded Niger hand over one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons who is under house arrest in the neighbouring African nation after he warned in a television interview that his homeland was facing a new uprising.

The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders has suspended its work in prisons in the Libyan city of Misrata because it says detainees are being tortured.

A LOUTH-based doctor and a Dublin electronics lecturer have been named as Libya’s new health and education ministers after taking leading roles during the revolution in the country.

The captured son of Muammar Gaddafi is likely to be tried in Libya, but with judges from the International Criminal Court involved in the case.

The fate of captured Libyan dictator’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was being worked out today by international justice officials and the country’s rulers.

THE capture of Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam and the former spymaster Abdullah Senussi marks the end of a regime that terrorised Libya for decades.

Muammar Gaddafi’s son and one-time heir apparent, Saif al-Islam, will be tried at home and will not be handed over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Libya’s Information Minister said today.

Muammar Gaddfi’s son Saif al-Islam – the only member of the ruling family to remain at large – was captured as he travelled with aides in a convoy in Libya’s southern desert, officials said today.

RIVAL militias clashed on the outskirts of the Libyan capital for a fourth day yesterday in the most sustained violence since the capture and killing of Muammar Gaddafi last month.

Some weapons depots in Libya have still not been secured properly, and "much has already gone missing" from unguarded sites, the top UN envoy in Libya said in an interview today.

LIBYA’S interim rulers yesterday elected academic Abdel Rahim al-Kib to head a transitional government as NATO was set to end an air campaign that played a major role in ousting Muammar Gaddafi.

Libya’s interim leadership has chosen an electronics engineer from Tripoli as the country’s new prime minister.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, fearing for his life if captured in Libya, has apparently taken refuge among Sahara nomads.

The UN Security Council last night cancelled its authorisation for a seven-month-old Nato military operation in Libya that led to the ouster and death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Nato unexpectedly postponed a definite decision to end its bombing campaign in Libya as consultations continued with the United Nations and the country’s interim government over how and when to wind down the operation.

MUAMMAR Gaddafi’s fugitive son Saif al-Islam and former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi wish to hand themselves in to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, a senior Libyan military official with the National Transitional Council (NTC) said last night.

MUAMMAR GADDAFI and his son Mo’tassim were buried in a secret desert location yesterday, five days after the deposed Libyan leader was captured, killed and put on grisly public display.

The head of Libya’s transitional government tried to reassure Western powers which helped topple Muammar Gaddafi that the country’s new leaders were moderate Muslims, after a speech that emphasised the Islamisation of Libya.

THE body of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will be buried today in a simple ceremony, attended by Muslim clerics, in a secret location in the Libyan desert, an official with the National Transitional Council said yesterday.

Libya's interim leader has ordered an investigation into Muammar Gaddafi's death after strong international pressure.

Dozens of bodies, apparently of Gaddafi loyalists, some of whom may have been executed by revolutionary forces, have been discovered in the Libyan town of Sirte.

LIBYA declared itself liberated yesterday after 42 years of rule by Muammar Gaddafi ended with his capture and death last week, getting the North African state ready for a transition towards democracy.

Libya’s new leaders will declare liberation today, officials said, a move that will start the clock for elections after months of bloodshed that culminated in the death of long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Muammar Gaddafi’s blood-streaked body was on display in a commercial freezer at a shopping centre as Libyan authorities argued about what to do with his remains and questions deepened over official accounts of the longtime dictator’s death.

MUAMMAR GADDAFI’S body lay in an old meat store in a shopping centre 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.

NATO plans to end its seven-month air and sea mission in Libya on October 31, but will issue a formal decision next week after consulting the United Nations and Libya’s interim authorities, Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said yesterday.

DISTURBING images of a bloodstained and shaken Muammar Gaddafi being dragged around by angry fighters quickly circulated around the world after the Libyan dictator’s death near his hometown of Sirte.

The burial of Muammar Gaddafi has been delayed until his death can be examined by the International Criminal Court, Libyan officials said.

Colonel Gaddafi has taken unanswered questions about the Lockerbie bombing and the murder of WPc Yvonne Fletcher with him to the grave, justice campaigners said today.

LIBYA is celebrating today after the death of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

JOCKEYING for power among Libya’s well-armed and fractious new leadership may intensify after the death of deposed autocrat Muammar Gaddafi, an anxious and, for many, joyous moment in a country hungry for stability and impatient to swap the bullet for the ballot box.

One of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons has been killed and another injured, Libyan officials confirmed tonight.

Muammar Gaddafi, who ruled Libya with an iron fist for 42 years, was killed today as rebel troops overran the last pockets of loyalist resistance in his home-town Sirte.

The death of ex-Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi paves the way for the settlement of legal claims by IRA victims in the North, the DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson has said.

The death of toppled Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was today hailed by the UK's Prime Minister David Cameron as a step towards a “strong and democratic future” for the north African country.