Hannibal Kadhafi, the son of the Libyan leader, is suing the Swiss canton of Geneva and a local newspaper over the publication of police mugshots taken when he was arrested in Switzerland, a local court said Tuesday. Geneva magistrates court said in a statement that he had lodged the civil lawsuit for damages over "protection of personality" on December 17 ...

Concern for the health of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the Libyan sentenced to life in prison for the Lockerbie bombing, grew in Tripoli on Sunday after a medical report said his cancer had spread. "A scan has shown a worsening of the disease which has spread more than before," said the bulletin from the Tripoli Medical Centre where Megrahi, is ...

The condition of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan sentenced to life imprisonment for the Lockerbie bombing and repatriated in August, has deteriorated and the cancer that afflicts him has spread through his body, a medical bulletin said early Sunday. "A scan has shown a worsening of the disease which has spread more than before," said the bulletin from the Tripoli ...

Rescuers recovered another body Sunday from a ship that sank in rough seas off the northern Lebanese coast as chances of finding more survivors dwindled, a port official said. "Rescue efforts are ongoing, but at this point we highly doubt there are any survivors left," Tripoli port authority chief Ahmad Tamer told AFP. He said the latest body to be ...