Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has urged a crowd of his supporters to fight back against protesters and “defend the nation”.

The ordeal of hundreds of Americans and other foreigners stuck on a ferry for three days has ended as their ship finally left a Libyan port.

Hundreds of Americans and other foreigners are spending a third day stuck unable to leave strife-torn Libya due to rough seas.

DOZENS of people were injured in clashes in Benghazi, a hospital in the eastern city said yesterday, as Libya braced for a “Day of Anger” following revolts in neighbouring Egypt and Tunisia.

BRITAIN yesterday condemned celebrations in Tripoli to mark the return of the Lockerbie bomber and scrambled to deflect international fallout from the decision to free him on humanitarian grounds.