William Maclean on why the manhunt for Gaddafi cannot be prolonged

MUAMMAR GADDAFI taunted his Libyan enemies and their Western backers last night as rebel forces battled pockets of loyalists across Tripoli in an urgent quest to find and silence the fugitive strongman.

The British Government will face mounting pressure to freeze Rupert Murdoch’s planned takeover of BSkyB today as the phone hacking scandal threatens to cause a major political storm.

The final edition of the News of the World said goodbye with an apology today after the 168-year old Sunday paper fell victim to the phone hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's attempts to hold on to power were thwarted by Nick Clegg's demand that he step aside as part of any coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, it was reported today.

British voters deserve a "good, stable government", Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said today as he pledged to approach cross-party talks in a "constructive spirit".

The Orange Order today signalled its backing for parading proposals as part of a landmark deal to devolve law and order powers to Northern Ireland.

Orangemen will be urged by their leaders today to back key parading proposals linked to the landmark deal to devolve law and order powers to the North.

The North’s First Minister Peter Robinson accused Sinn Féin today of moving backwards in crunch talks to resolve the policing and justice dispute.

Fresh tensions emerged today between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) over the transfer of policing and justice powers from Westminster to Stormont.

Sinn Féin today accused its Democratic Unionist partners in government of corrupting negotiations to devolve policing powers to Stormont by introducing another pre-condition to the move – this time on the issue of Orange parades.

The SDLP will support the retention of the Parades Commission when it outlines details of its plans for resolving contentious marches tomorrow.

HE WAS accused of masterminding massacres that the United Nations war crimes tribunal described as “scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history”.

A British Government review has proposed the scrapping of the Parades Commission in the North.

Sir Menzies Campbell said today he felt “irritated and frustrated” after quitting as Liberal Democrat leader.

BRITISH troops should be withdrawn from Iraq once Iraqi forces have been trained, regardless of the security situation, the co-chairman of a commission looking into the policy said yesterday.

BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown unveiled his senior ministerial team yesterday, a day after taking power, vowing change after the end of Tony Blair’s decade in power.

Gordon Brown will be under pressure to make a substantial appointment to the post of Northern Secretary following reports that Paddy Ashdown turned down an offer to take the job, it was claimed today.

More than 200 Orange Order members from the North joined their London colleagues today in a march to commemorate the 200th birthday of the Grand Lodge of England.

Paddy Ashdown today appealed for everyone in the North with an opinion on parading to contact him with their views.

A new body reviewing parades in the North will today begin its work under the chairmanship of former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown.

Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown is to head a review of parading in the North, it was announced today.

British politician Tony Benn will address students at Dublin’s Trinity College today.

The EU will consider reducing its peacekeeping force in Bosnia by almost two-thirds if elections scheduled for later this year show the country is on the path to stability, Austria’s defence minister said today.

Sir Menzies Campbell, a leading contender for leadership of Britain’s Liberal Democrat Party, today ruled out coalition talks with Labour or the Conservatives if he won the contest.

A Bosnian Serb commission said today it has identified more than 17,000 participants in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the worst slaughter of civilians since the Second World War.

Paddy Ashdown, currently the top international administrator in Bosnia, was in the 1970s an agent for the British MI6 secret service, Sarajevo daily newspapers reported today.

Thousands of survivors of Europe’s worst massacre of civilians since the Second World War will mark the 10th anniversary of the slaughter today by burying the newly-identified bodies of 610 victims.

PADDY Ashdown, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s international administrator, yesterday fired 60 Bosnian Serb officials, including some senior figures, in a bid to weed out suspected backers of war criminals.

Bosnian Serb officials have acknowledged for the first time that their security forces carried out the massacre of thousands of Muslims at Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, according to an investigative report.

Paddy Ashdown, Bosnia’s top international official, gave a six-month deadline to the Bosnian Serb authorities to reveal the fate of thousands of Muslims still missing after the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

The wife and son of the world’s most wanted war crimes suspect were today banned from entering European Union countries.

TWO close allies of the world’s most wanted war criminal have been banned from entering the country.

Minister for Defence Michael Smith is today beginning a three-day trip to the Balkans to visit troops on peacekeeping missions.

Paddy Ashdown, the former leader of the British Liberal Democrats, has told the UN War Crimes Tribunal that he warned Slobodan Milosevic in 1998 to stop the Serb campaign in Kosovo of face trial for crimes against humanity.

Mad cow disease has claimed its 100th victim in Britain.

Nato Secretary General Lord Robertson is heading to Macedonia to try to find a political solution to the Balkans crisis.