Reports

The woman was about to enter a government office in eastern Jerusalem.

“The government will not backtrack on a free market economy,” said Hazem al-Beblawi, who is also the interim government's finance minister.

“Boycotting the elections was a threatening option to pressure the military council, not a serious one,” he said. “Political parties are established to participate in elections, not to boycott them.”

The weapons could end up in other countries and in the wrong hands, the admiral said, according to Spiegel, “anywhere from Kenya to Kunduz” in Afghanistan.

Hundreds of cars carrying Sirte residents formed long lines at revolutionary forces’ checkpoints leading out of the city, calmly waiting to be checked by the fighters as explosions echoed in the distance.

Britain may compensate hate preacher Raed Salah, an Israeli citizen, over failure to translate arrest order.

Residents say at least 1,000 deserters and armed villagers have been fighting loyalist forces, who are backed by tanks and helicopters

In August, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the potential recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations should only be a “step forward” towards “full liberation.”

U.S. officials are worried about the emergence of so-called homegrown militants in the United States who apparently radicalize themselves by visiting Internet sites that host strongly anti-Western Islamist commentary written in English.

Egypt may release Ilan Grapel, the young American-Israeli detained for months and accused of spying.