BY the time the outside world agrees on a response to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s bloody onslaught against a popular revolt, it could all be over.

THE release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi removes the sharpest thorn in Britain’s relations with Libya and boosts the prospects for British companies there.

SCOTLAND yesterday released a former Libyan agent jailed for life for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, most of them Americans, because he is dying of cancer.

The pan-Arab TV channel Al-Jazeera today condemned a Spanish court’s finding that one of its journalists had collaborated with terrorism, accusing the judges of violating legal principles.

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.