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Moammar Gadhafi and his son Mo'tassim were buried at dawn Tuesday in an unknown location, ending a wrangle over their rotting bodies, a Libyab official said.

Libyan rebels, who captured Moammar Gadhafi from a storm drain outside his hometown of Sirte, allegedly sodomized the former leader with an object just after he was detained.

An autopsy performed on the body of Col. Moammar Gadhafi has confirmed that the former Libyan dictator was killed by a shot to the head. The autopsy was performed by Libya's chief forensic pathologist, Dr. Othman el-Zentani.

Ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will be buried Tuesday in a secret desert grave, a National Transitional Council official said Monday night, ending a wrangle over his rotting corpse that led many to fear for Libya's governability.

Moderate Islamists claimed victory Monday in Tunisia's first democratic election, sending a message to other states in the region that long-sidelined Muslim parties are challenging for power after the Arab Spring.

Anonymous has set its sights on a Web hosting service for refusing to take down child pornography as its next target with its OPDarkNet plan.

While the humanitarian tragedy arising from the quake will not occupy the hearts, minds and bodies of the local population – the longer-term struggle between Kurds and Turks will likely not abate.

Despite claims by Libya's interim government that dictator Moammar Gadhafi was killed in crossfire after revolutionary fighters captured him Thursday, a Libyan rebel has confessed on camera to the killing.

Members of National Nurses United are rallying outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office after police arrested two nurses and a union organizer at an Occupy Chicago protest in Grant Park on Saturday.

Libya's interim rulers ended the public display of the bodies of Muammar Gaddafi, his son and army chief on Monday after four days in which thousands of Libyans came to see for themselves that the dictator was really dead.

Moammar Gadhafi's wife is calling on the United Nations to investigate the death of the fighter Moammar and Mutassim.

The transitional government leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil declared Sunday the end of Libya's eight-month-long war and set out a vision for a post-Moammar Gadhafi Libya that will have an Islamist tint.

Moammar Gadhafi's cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head, the chief pathologist who performed the autopsy confirmed on Sunday.

Argentina's center-leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, won a landslide re-election victory Sunday as voters credited her unconventional policies for a long economic boom.

Argentina's fiery center-leftist president, Cristina Fernandez, swept to a landslide re-election victory Sunday, crowning a comeback that seemed unthinkable for much of her turbulent first term.

Libyan forces guarding Muammar Gaddafi's body in a cold storage room on Saturday let in members of the public to view the deposed leader for a second day, but the wounds that may hold the clue to how he died were covered up.

As Muammar Gaddafi lay still unburied, Libya's outgoing premier said the coming days posed a crucial test of resolve for the new men of power, who are wrangling over the body, and about a formal end to the war.

They were the leaders, the rulers of their countries. Yet, they were overthrown as a result of their own horrendous deeds and merciless killings.

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Friday to condemn Yemen’s bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters and endorsed an initiative aimed at securing President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s commitment to leave office.

NATO called an end to its air war in Libya, and the clan of Moammar Gadhafi demanded a chance to bury the body that lay on display in a meat locker after a death as brutal and chaotic as his 42-year rule.

NATO called an end to its air war in Libya, and the clan of Muammar Gaddafi demanded a chance to bury the body that lay on display in a meat locker after a death as brutal and chaotic as his 42-year rule.