NATO warplanes bombed the residence of Muammar Gadhafi early Monday morning in an attack.
More than 400 inmates - many of them Taliban insurgents - escaped from the main prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar overnight through an underground tunnel.
A NATO airstrike flattened a building inside Muammar Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound early on Monday.
A Libyan boy's drawing, showing the flags of Qatar, France, Italy, US and the Kingdom of Libya, is seen in Court Square, Benghazi April 24, 2011.
At least 500 people died in religious rioting that followed Nigeria's presidential election, a civil rights group said Sunday, as volatile state gubernatorial elections loom this week.
Strong blasts were heard in Libya 's capital Tripoli late Sunday as unidentified warplanes flew over the downtown, a Xinhua correspondent said.
Talks on new American and Israeli plans and initiatives to push forward the peace process have increased in the past few weeks.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has agreed to step down within weeks in return for immunity from prosecution, but protesters said they would keep up their demonstrations until he went.
The western Libyan city of Misrata came under heavy bombardment on Sunday by forces loyal to Muammar Gadhafi, a rebel spokesman said.
Egypt's Prosecutor General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud ordered on Sunday to transfer former President Hosni Mubarak to a military hospital before Tora prison hospital is ready to receive him.
At least 57 people were killed and many others were injured in armed clashes between Sudan People 's Liberation Army (SPLA) and defecting forces in south Sudan's Upper Nile State.
Rap is more popular than rock and country among the young people in Libya because it expresses anger and frustration.