After years of war, the authorities in Benghazi, Libya, are trying to attract international tourists. They’ve started with a brand new skydiving center.

Libya has played host to its second oil and gas discovery within a few weeks. Fresh from OMV finding up to 42 million barrels of resources in the onshore part of the Sirte basin last month, state-owned Arabian Gulf Oil Company (Agoco) has now hit oil and gas with a well in the Ghadames basin.

Forty-two migrants were presumed dead after a rubber boat capsized off the Libyan coast this month. Many of the presumed victims were fleeing a raging conflict in Sudan.

Another migrant disaster off the Libyan coast has left at least four people dead and dozens missing. Two overcrowded boats capsized near Al Khums, with nearly a hundred migrants on board. One vessel carrying Bangladeshis lost four people,

TRIPOLI (Reuters) -Hannibal Gaddafi, youngest son of Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi, was released on Monday after almost a decade of detention without trial in Lebanon over the disappearance of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric, Lebanon's National News Agency said.

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty reaffirmed his country’s firm position in support of Libya’s unity and sovereignty, stressing the importance of backing genuine Libyan national efforts aimed at advancing a political settlement,