Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has threatened retaliatory attacks against passenger aircraft in the Mediterranean if foreign countries made air strikes against his country.

Africa and the Middle East is proving there is no future in fighting the popular will.

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's second son counts Prince Andrew and Tony Blair as friends but he is losing popularity in the Western world.

All New Zealanders who wanted to leave Libya had now left, Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.

Libya has taken its first steps towards a new future after four decades of dictatorship with the formation of a new administration in the half of the country which is out of Gaddafi's control.

Economic blow may lead Chinese to follow Middle East example.

Investors flocked to oil and gold on world markets overnight amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, with violence in Libya gathering steam.

It’s appropriate that a city whose wealth was partly due to a locally grown aphrodisiac should have its rises and falls.

Jill Worrall visits the carvings of Wadi Methkandoush, which have been incised into the rocky walls of a valley about 400km due south of Libya's capital Tripoli.