LIBYA

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro denounced NATO on Monday for its role in the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying the brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression the history of humanity has known.

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.

For Libya, it is a form of liberation and rebirth, following the death of former dictator, Col. Moammar Gadhafi. The new rulers have made a statement, by leaving Gadhafi's body, for the third day, in Misrata. The whole scene looked quite like a carnival, as people lined up to look at the decomposing bodies of Gadhafi, his son and an army chief.

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi is shocked and outraged by the vicious brutality shown towards his father and brother Mo'tassim and said it showed no one connected to the former government would receive a fair trial in Libya, Saadi's lawyer said on Sunday.

At a time when confusions loom over what to do with Libyan ex-leader Moammar Gadhafi's body, a will has emerged on his Web site, Seven Days News, indicating that the autocrat's last will was to be buried in his birthplace Sirte according to Muslim rituals.

Libya's new rulers declared the country free from Moammar Gadhafi's 42 years rule Sunday as thousands gathered in Benghazi for the formal announcement of liberation.

Libya's chief forensic pathologist says an autopsy has confirmed that Moammar Gadhafi died from a gunshot to the head, as he uttered his last words.

On Friday, hundreds of members of the public flocked in to the cold room in which Gadhafi's body was laid on a mattress. But on Saturday, his body was covered by a blanket, leaving only his head exposed. The bruises on his torso and scratch marks on his chest were hidden.

Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, known for his savage killings, was shot dead Thursday in his hometown of Sirte.

The death of Moammar Gadhafi has definitely clarified one piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is the global oil market: There is now one fewer issue to hinder production security in a host of oil hot spots.

Libyans should be allowed to vote within eight months to elect a national council that would draft a new constitution and form an interim government, Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said on Saturday.

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.

The Tea Party Nation blogger who said U.S. small businesses should stop hiring new employees in order to ensure President Barack Obama will not be re-elected expands on her statement. Melissa Brookstone said a global socialist movement is well underway and Obama is connected to it.

Angelina Jolie is making her directorial debut in December with an extremely powerful and complex film, In the Land of Blood and Honey.

When Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril announced Moammar Gadhafi's death Thursday, he began with the words: We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. That must have made many in Libya and in the U.S. feel very good: it never hurts to be reminded that justice exists.

The popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world this year have slowed economies across the region, and now jobs, better governance, and investment are needed, speakers at the World Economic Forum in Jordan said Saturday.

Graphic photographs and video footage of the violent death of Col. Moammar Gadhafi,who was executed by a mob of rebel fighters near his hometown of Sirte, shows the magnitude of humiliation the Libyan dictator suffered in his final moments.

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.