ABC News, Australia - Gaddafi's body may be returned to family, Oct 23, 2011

PHOTO: A woman reacts after seeing the corpse Moamar Gaddafi in Misrata (Reuters: Suhaib Salem )

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Libya's National Transitional Council has announced that Moamar Gaddafi's body is likely to be handed over to representatives of his family and tribe in the next 24 to 48 hours.

It remains unclear if a post-mortem will be carried out on his body, which is still being held in a cold storage container in Misrata. The body of his son is also there.

Libyans have been queuing-up to view the body of their former dictator.

Gaddafi's body is now covered by a blanket that leaves only his head exposed, hiding the bruises on his torso and scratch marks on his chest that had earlier been visible.

And, crucially, a Reuters reporter who viewed the body said Gaddafi's head had been turned to the left. That means a bullet hole that earlier could be seen on the left side of his face, just in front of his ear, can no longer be seen.

CBS News - German satellite expected to hit Earth Sunday, Oct 23, 2011

Undated artist rendering provided by EADS Astrium shows the scientific satellite ROSAT. Andreas Schuetz, a spokesman for the German Aerospace Center, said Saturday Oct. 22, 2011 the best estimate is still that the ROSAT scientific research satellite will impact sometime between late Saturday and Sunday 1200 GMT. (AP Photo/EADS Astrium)

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BERLIN - A defunct satellite entered the earth's atmosphere early Sunday and pieces of it were expected crash to the Earth within hours, the German Aerospace Center said.

Pieces of the ROSAT scientific research satellite were expected to hit Sunday morning European time, or between about 0030 and 0530 GMT (between 8:30 p.m. EDT Saturday and 1:30 a.m. EDT Saturday), the agency said.

Most parts of the minivan-sized satellite were expected to burn up during re-entry into the atmosphere but up to 30 fragments weighing 1.87 tons (1.7 metric tons) could crash into Earth at speeds up to 280 mph (450 kph).

The satellite orbits every 90 minutes and it could hit almost anywhere along its path — a vast swath between 53-degrees north and 53-degrees south that comprises much of the planet outside the poles, including parts of North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

"According to the data we currently have, we expect it not to hit over Europe, Africa or Australia," agency spokesman Andreas Schuetz said. "The satellite is still orbiting and we are observing the data for other parts of the world," he added.

CBS News - Libya paves the way for elections, Oct 22, 2011

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Libya's interim leaders are moving to put the war-torn country back together. A declaration of liberation is expected Sunday.

On Saturday acting Prime Minister Makhmoud Jibril resigned, clearing the way for an interim government and elections. CBS News Elizabeth Palmer in Tripoli has the latest.

Just before stepping down, Libya's interim prime minister also set an ambitious deadline for elections.

"The first election after the liberating of the country, which should take place today, should be within a period of eight months, maximum," he said.

Libyans line up to view Muammar Qaddafi's body at a shopping centre in Misrata, Libya, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011.

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Before Jibril left office, he along with thousands of other Libyans went to a shopping center in the city of Misrata where Col. Muammar Qaddafi's corpse was on public display for the second day in a row -- laid out by the rebel fighters who caught him.

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Most of the spectators had no sympathy.

"He killed my brother, my cousin, he raped my friends, he burned my family's house," said a woman.

REUTERS - Clues to Gaddafi's death concealed from public view, Oct 23, 2011

People stand in line to see the body of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Misrata October 21, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Saad Shalash

By Rania El Gamal

MISRATA, Libya | Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:01am EDT

(Reuters) - Libyan forces guarding Muammar Gaddafi's body in a cold storage room let in members of the public to view the deposed leader for a second day on Saturday, but the wounds that may hold the clue to how he died were covered up.

Gaddafi's body lay on a mattress on the floor of the cold room, as it did Friday when hundreds of members of the public filed in to see for themselves that the man who ruled Libya for 42 years was dead.

But unlike the previous day, Gaddafi's body was covered by a blanket that left only his head exposed, hiding the bruises on his torso and scratch marks on his chest that had earlier been visible.

And, crucially, a Reuters reporter who viewed the body said, Gaddafi's head had been turned to the left. That meant a bullet hole that earlier could be seen on the left side of his face, just in front of his ear, could no longer be seen.

Guards overseeing Gaddafi's body handed out green surgical masks to dozens of people filing in to take a look because of the stench of rotting flesh filling the room.

The bullet hole in Gaddafi's head, and the other wounds, could help solve the riddle of whether, as Libya's new rulers said, he was shot in crossfire in a battle or, as some accounts suggest, he was killed by the fighters who caught him.

ABC News, Australia - Occupy protesters arrested in Sydney, Oct 22, 2011

VIDEO: Activists occupy Sydney and Melbourne CBD (ABC News)

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Riot police have staged a major operation in central Sydney to move anti-corporate Occupy Sydney protestors out of Martin Place.

Around 200 officers swooped on the square, and protesters say around 50 people were arrested.

The remaining protesters were moved out of the square and down Elizabeth Street. A small group of protesters remain in Hyde Park.

Protester Time spokesman Davis Frank says riot police turned up around 5.00am (ADST).

"Seeing people who have been peaceful for eight days, crying and screaming in pain after they were woken up out of their sleep - it doesn't make any sense," he said.

Protestor Amber Wallace says she was given just minutes to pack up before being moved.

"We didn't even get enough time to talk to our neighbour about what was going on," she said.

Another protestor says he was assaulted by officers.

"I screamed, I was saying 'release the handcuffs, loosen the handcuffs my arm is going to break' - I said it over and over," he said.

Police have confirmed an operation is underway to move people out of Martin Place who are in breach of Sydney of City regulations.

They last night charged two people involved in the protest with assaulting a police officer after they refused an order to disperse.

The Occupy Sydney protest started last week in response to the world wide movement began in New York against what protesters describe as corporate greed.

NZ HERALD - Thailand is bracing for impact, Oct 22, 2011

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People use makeshift floats to navigate flooded outer Bangkok streets. Photo / AP

Floodwaters that have devastated Thailand's industry and agriculture seeped into outer Bangkok yesterday as the crowded capital's residents braced for the worst. Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra urged the city's nine million residents to get ready to move to higher ground. Gates on flood-control canals in the capital have been opened in a move to drain the high waters into the sea, but it's not known how much will overflow on to streets.

THE GUARDIAN - Libya prepares for liberation ceremony, Oct 22, 2011

Libyans embrace ahead of a planned formal declaration of liberation. Photograph: Abdel Magid Al-Fergany/AP

Libya's transitional government is to finally declare the country liberated following the capture and killing of the ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Military official Abdel-Rahman Busin said the governing National Transitional Council (NTC) had begun preparations for a liberation ceremony on Sunday in the eastern city of Benghazi, birthplace of the Libyan revolution.

The declaration comes as military commanders in Misurata rejected international calls for a post-mortem on Gaddafi's body, amid signs of tension among some of the revolutionary factions.

In another step towards transforming the former dictatorship into a democracy, the interim prime minister Mahmoud Jibril said on Saturday that 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.

CNN News - EU officials scramble as debt deal falters, Oct 22, 2011

Eurogroup president Jean-Claude Junker and Herman Van Rompuy, head of the European Council, are among officials taking part in a flurry of meetings this weekend to finalize a broad plan to stabilize the euro.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- European leaders will be in talks pretty much non stop over the next few days as they hammer out a plan to fix the eurozone debt crisis.

The flurry of "consultations" comes ahead of a highly-anticipated summit of European Union government leaders on Sunday in Brussels. This was supposed to be the defining moment with a clear solution.