The Obama administration today called for the only person convicted of the Lockerbie bombing to be returned to a Scottish prison.

SCOTTISH authorities have defended the doctor who said Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi had three months to live, after US senators asked them to release the Libyan’s medical records.

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.

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.

BRITAIN has released documents detailing confidential exchanges over the Lockerbie bomber’s release – letters it hoped will end speculation that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi’s freedom was used to sweeten economic and political deals between Libya and Britain.

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.

THE head of Scotland’s government has said that FBI director Robert Mueller was wrong to criticise the decision to free the Pan Am Flight 103 bomber – insisting there was public support for the release on compassionate grounds.

The US and Libya sealed a historic turnaround after decades of terrorist killings, American retaliation, suspicions and insults with Condoleezza Rice’s peacemaking visit to mercurial strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she’s excited about a landmark trip she will make to Libya today, becoming the highest-ranking American official to visit the North African country in more than a half-century.

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.

A FORMER Libyan intelligence agent may have been wrongly convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a judicial panel said yesterday, recommending that he be granted a new appeal.

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.

Trial in Africa is apparently too risky for a man accused of fomenting war across west Africa – and believed to have the support and money to create more trouble.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has lashed out at what he described as “backward” societies in the Middle East.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi today lashed out at what he described as “backward” societies in the Middle East.

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.

FIVE Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor at the centre of intense international negotiations won a reprieve when Libya's highest court overturned their death sentences on charges they deliberately infected children with AIDS.

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.

Mercurial Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi came in from the cold today when he made a VIP visit to EC headquarters in Brussels, declaring his readiness to work with the West peacefully after years of championing armed struggle against it.

Making his first trip to the West in 15 years, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was aiming today to improve relations with the European Union despite lingering charges of human rights abuses by his government.

Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi received a letter from US president George Bush during the highest-level diplomatic meeting in more than 20 years, it was reported.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar pledged today to find those responsible for the worst terrorist attack in Spanish history as the nation mourned the 198 who died in the string of train bombings.

A series of bombs hidden in backpacks exploded in quick succession, blowing apart four commuter trains, killing at least 192 people and wounding more than 1,400.

Muammar Gaddafi says he is eager to see Libya shed its pariah existence and be embraced by the rest of the world.

LIBYA’S leader Moammar Gaddafi last night promised to dismantle his country’s secret weapons of mass destruction programme, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced.

The UN Security Council plans to vote today to lift more than a decade of sanctions against Libya, but France could block the long-awaited deal to settle the Lockerbie bombing case.

The UN Security Council will vote on Tuesday on a British proposal to lift sanctions against Libya, though France and Tripoli are still deadlocked on how much to pay the families of 170 people killed in an 1989 airliner bombing, diplomats said.

Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi says agreement over compensation has been reached between his country and the families of the 170 victims of a French airliner that exploded nearly 14 years ago.

UN diplomats said they would give France more time to reach agreement on its demands for new compensation from Libya for a 1989 bombing of a French airliner before voting to lift sanctions against the North African country. But they stressed that France needs to move quickly.

UN diplomats said they would give France more time to reach agreement on its demands for new compensation from Libya for a 1989 bombing of a French airliner before voting to lift sanctions against the North African country. But they stressed that France needs to move quickly.

Libya officially accepted responsibility for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing tonight, in a letter handed to the United Nations Security Council.

LIBYA has agreed to set up a €2.4 billion fund for families of 270 people killed in the 1988 Pan Am bombing, the families' lawyers said, a move that could end UN sanctions and resolve an issue that has made the country an international pariah.

Talks between British, American and Libyan officials about the Lockerbie bombing are making progress, with negotiators from the North African country reportedly “closer” to accepting responsibility for the 1988 attack.

LIBYA will pay $10m (€9.1m) to each of the 270 victims of the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing after accepting civil responsibility for the blast, Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham said.

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.

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.

A special Scottish court in the Netherlands was opening an appeals hearing today for a Libyan intelligence agent convicted of mass murder for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing - a case that exposed the complexity of putting terrorism on trial.