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The price of Nato help
- Heavy fighting continues in and around the capital, Tripoli, with Nato giving heavy bombing and shelling support to the rebel body, the Transitional National Council (TNC)
- This is, in large part, the outcome of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 — which bars landings by foreign forces but allows member states to use “all necessary means” (diplomatic terminology for military action)
- Humanitarian intervention as conceived by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France under cover of the U.N. has meant using highly advanced weaponry in helping the TNC
- the western powers will almost certainly exact a heavy price for supporting the uprising. Their demands are likely to include — as they did in Iraq — preferential, if not monopoly, access for western oil corporations.
India offers help to Libya
- India has offered all possible assistance in reconstruction and rehabilitation of the country devastated by months of civil war
- recent events in Tripoli indicate that the Transitional National Council is acquiring effective control.
Cleared of criminal charges, Strauss-Kahn faces civil suit
- The sensational sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn (62), former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and potential French presidential candidate, even more sensationally collapsed on Tuesday, after Judge Michael Obus of a State Supreme Court in Manhattan dismissed the criminal case entirely.
- “He has not only turned his back on this victim but he has also turned his back on the forensic, medical and other physical evidence in this case.”
First to scale 14 peaks without oxygen
Austrian climber Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner became the first woman to conquer all 14 8,000-metre summits without artificial oxygen on Tuesday, when she reached the top of the K2, her team announced.
Scroll through the Amazon
Google says it will soon make available images of the Amazon rain forest on its Street View mapping service.
Dissidents, U.N. pile pressure on Assad regime
Syrian dissidents formed on Tuesday a council to coordinate anti-regime protests as the U.N. Human Rights Council decided to probe violations in the government's crackdown on dissent.
S&P chief Deven Sharma resigns
- Deven Sharma (55), Indian-American president of credit rating agency Standard & Poor's, has resigned
- S&P's downgrade of the U.S.' debt from AAA to AA+ on August 5, based on its perception that the deficit reduction measures agreed by the administration were insufficient to stabilise national debt, saw further market turmoil in its wake as the downgrade triggered a massive global sell-off.
