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Fighting rages for Libyan capital
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Rebels looking for Gaddafi's men comb the streets
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Woman jailed for life for William Reilly bottle murder
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A woman has been jailed for life for murdering a 91-year-old blind man by battering him with a bottle of wine.
Melanie Cole, 49, attacked William Reilly at his home in Tower Gardens, Tottenham, north London, on 29 December. He died a week later.
The Old Bailey heard Cole, who must serve at least 30 years in prison, "murdered him for money".
Cole, of Culford Road, Islington, was cleared of murdering another man in 2005.
Jurors heard Mr Reilly was found covered in blood sitting on his bed, by his son James.
He had suffered head injuries after being beaten with a bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape and a bottle of liqueur.
The retired builder, who was registered blind and almost completely deaf, died a week later in hospital after developing pneumonia.
Zoe Johnson, prosecuting, said Cole killed Mr Reilly for the money he had in his coat pocket.
The court heard Cole would turn up at the house unannounced and had previously stolen money from Mr Reilly after they met in a local pub.
Cole denied the charge and claimed Mr Reilly was well when she left him
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Man guilty of Heathrow suitcase murder of Fatima Kama
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Youseff Wahid took the suitcase with the body in it on a train to Heathrow
A man who stabbed a woman to death and then travelled on a train with the body in a suitcase has been convicted of murder.
Youseff Wahid, 42, was spotted on CCTV heaving the case on to the Heathrow Express before dumping it in a car park, the Old Bailey heard.
He had attacked "vivacious" Fatima Kama, 28, when she stayed at his brother's flat in London in 1999.
Wahid fled to Beirut but was finally tracked down in Bahrain.
Miss Kama was on a week-long visit to London from Canada in July 1999 when she was attacked in the property on Edgware Road.
She had been repeatedly stabbed and had her throat slashed.
Wahid then took her body on the train from Paddington station to an airport car park.
Adrian Darbishire, prosecuting, said Wahid was seen on CCTV carrying the "very heavy" suitcase on the train.
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Fatima Kama had a number of rich admirers
The next morning, he had shaved off his moustache and left the UK for Beirut in his native Lebanon where extradition was not possible.
But Mr Darbishire said he could not escape "the long arm of Scotland Yard" as detectives tracked him to Bahrain.
It is believed that is the first time anyone has been extradited to the UK from there.
DNA from the body linked him to Miss Kama whose blood was found on carpets and skirting boards.
Miss Kama's family had alerted police when she failed to turn up at Montreal airport.
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As rebel forces consolidated their control over Tripoli amid signs of disorganization within the ranks, the manhunt continued Monday for Col. Moammar Gadhafi, who was said by his son to be alive and well.
Three of Gadhafi's sons — Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, Mohammed Gadhafi and Saadi Gadhafi — were reported to have been captured by the rebels, but Saif later appeared before reporters at a Tripoli hotel, and Al Jazeera reported that Mohammed managed to escape
The battle for Tripoli – day two
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Rebel fighters fire towards forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi during fierce gun fights in downtown Tripoli on Monday.
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Elvis Presley songwriter Jerry Leiber dies at 78
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Leiber (right) and Stoller (left) were responsible for some of Elvis Presley's classic hits
Jerry Leiber, the songwriter who penned such classic rock and roll hits as Elvis Presley's Hound Dog and Jailhouse Rock, has died at the age of 78.
Leiber earned his reputation alongside co-writer Mike Stoller, penning tunes for The Drifters, The Coasters and Ben E King as well as Presley.
Leiber and Stoller infused their songs with influences from their blues and jazz backgrounds.
Leiber died of cardiopulmonary failure in Los Angeles, a spokesman said.
Leiber's career began in 1953 when Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton became the first artist to record Hound Dog.
Then a rhythm and blues number, the track went to the top of the charts.
The song would later become an even more successful hit record for Presley, who reinvented it as a rock and roll standard.
The pair also crafted the enduring Ben E King hit Stand By Me, seen by critics as one of their most influential and enduring songs.
Leiber and Stoller's work as a songwriting duo earned them 15 number one hits and secured them both entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1987.
Battle for Tripoli continues
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A man wounded by a sniper
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A rebel fighter in Tripoli in the early morning
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Rebel fighters drive through Tripoli
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A rebel fighter holds the identification card of a pro-Gaddafi soldier after he was captured in Tripoli
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The Arabic writing on the wall reads: Libya is free … Long live Libya
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Rebel fighters speak to a suspected pro-Gaddafi soldier after he was captured in Tripoli
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Washington, USA: Visitors read quotes inscribed in the wall at the Martin Luther King Jr memorial
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Bamiyan, Afghanistan: Afghan policemen train at a live firing range
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California, USA: A man dressed as Santa Claus walks on Venice Beach in Los Angeles
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California, USA: Bay Area Rapid Transit (Bart) police arrest a demonstrator during a protest on the platform at the Civic Centre station in San Francisco
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Watford, UK: The Janmashtami festival at Bhaktivedanta Manor
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Poland/Ukraine border: An aerial view shows a land art installation by Polish artist Jaroslaw Koziara as a part of a land art festival on the field between Horodyszcze (Poland) and Warez (Ukraine)
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Two people watch as a fire sweeps through Richard Branson's Caribbean holiday retreat on Monday, Aug. 22. The blaze in the Great House on Necker Island was caused by a lightning strike and the building was completely destroyed, the billionaire said on Monday. British Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet was among the guests who escaped unhurt from the fire along with her boyfriend, and family, and Branson's mother Eve.
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Palestinians shop at the new al-Andulusia mall in Gaza City on August 16. An abrupt flurry of construction is suddenly allowing a tiny middle class to flaunt its wealth in the impoverished Gaza Strip, fueling perhaps the most acrimonious grassroots resentment yet toward the ruling Hamas movement.
With all that has been happening in Libya, Syria, Israel, Gaza and beyond these past few days, very little international attention has been focused on a renewal of the conflict between Turkey and PKK Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, which flared up on August 17 when the PKK attacked Turkish forces in the border region.
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Women mourn after shelling by Turkish warplanes that killed seven people in the northern town of Rania in Sulaimaniya province, Iraq, on August 22. The president of Iraq's Kurdish region on Monday condemned shelling by Turkish warplanes that killed seven Iraqis.
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A collapsed building is seen in Dahuk province, northern Iraq on August 20 after Turkish warplanes backed by heavy artillery struck Kurdish guerrilla targets.
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Turkish plain-clothes policemen hold a pro-Kurdish demonstrator during a protest against Turkish air strikes over northern Iraq, in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 21.
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A funeral procession follows the coffin of major Yavuz Basayar during a ceremony in Ankara, Turkey, on August 19. Kurdish rebels killed eight Turkish soldiers, including Basayar, and a village guard on August 17 in an ambush in the southeast of the country.
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A woman watches from a beach in Santo Domingo on August 22, while the Dominican Republic waits for the imminent arrival of Hurricane Irene on its northern coast
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Jim Abel shops for hurricane supplies at Home Depot as he prepares for the possible arrival of Hurricane Irene on August 22 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Irene is the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic season with winds at 80mph currently and may hit the East coast later this week with higher winds projected.
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Janice Gainer, left, and Peggy Dillard load their vehicle with hurricane supplies they purchased at Home Depot in West Palm Beach, Florida on August 22.
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A Somali government soldier shoots at close range to execute two former soldiers Abdi Sankus Abdi (R) and Abdullahi Jinow Guure (L) at the Iskola Bulisiya square in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, August 22, 2011. The military court of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) executed Abdi, 31, and Guure, 29, after they were found guilty of killing another soldier and a civilian on the basis of witness testimony, the Chairman of the Military Court Hassan Mohamed Hussein Mungab said.
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A car stops near a fire barricade set by fugitives at the entrance of el-Sheikh Zoyed city in North Sinai, Egypt, August 21, 2011
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German Chancellor and head of the German Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) Angela Merkel awaits the start of a party board meeting in Berlin, August 22, 2011.
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Israel's President Shimon Peres (R) and Ashdod Mayor Yehiel Lasri eat popsicles during a visit to a shopping mall in Ashdod to show solidarity with the residents of southern Israel, August 22, 2011.
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Manchester United's Wayne Rooney (R) scores against Tottenham Hotspur during their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford in Manchester, August 22, 2011.
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Supporters of veteran Indian social activist Anna Hazare wave Indian national flags on the seventh day of Hazare's fast at the Ramlila grounds in New Delhi, August 22, 2011.
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Bad Housing Situation
The shadows of demonstrators are thrown across the wall of an abandoned public building that the protesters occupied during a rally against the rising cost of living in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Monday.
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Nick Ashford, Motown Hitmaker, Dead at 70
Nick Ashford, left, who along with wife and songwriting partner Valerie Simpson, right, penned a number of Motown classics for stars like Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross, died Monday at the age of 70. He suffered from throat cancer.
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Time for a Checkup
A team of doctors examine anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare during his headline-grabbing hunger strike in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday.
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Activists Protest Oil Pipeline at White House
In front of the White House on Monday, authorities search women who were arrested with a group of other environmental activists during a rally against a proposed oil pipeline, which would run from Canada to Texas.
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Bucket Brigade
Local residents rush toward a bullet-ridden NATO oil tanker Monday to collect fuel after an attack by gunmen in the village of Kolpur, which is 15 miles south of Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province
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Sad Day in Manila
In Manila on Tuesday, Buddhist monks walk past police during a religious ceremony marking the one-year anniversary of the Philippine bus standoff in which eight Hong Kong tourists were killed.
Australian MP Craig Thomson in sex scandal inquiry
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Australian police are investigating claims an MP from the governing Labor Party misused his trade union credit card to pay for sex with prostitutes.
Police said they were examining new evidence against Craig Thomson.
Mr Thomson has denied any wrongdoing, and has already said an unnamed friend forged his signature to use the card. :rofl:
A conviction for theft or fraud could bring down Julia Gillard's minority government, which has a working majority of just one seat.
Prime Minister Gillard has expressed "full confidence" in Mr Thomson, and said any investigation into his conduct should be allowed to run its course.