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If he quits,Gaddafi can stay: Rebel chief

BENGHAZI: Muammar Gaddafi is welcome to live out his retirement inside Libya as long as he gives up all power, Libyas rebel chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said in the clearest concession so far offered.

Mladic gets not-guilty pleas

THE HAGUE: A defiant Ratko Mladic plunged his war crimes tribunal arraignment into chaos Monday,repeatedly shouting at judges and refusing to enter pleas to 11 charges. The presiding judge threw him out and entered not-guilty pleas.

UK soldier missing in Afghanistan

KABUL: The British Defence Ministry said a British soldier has gone missing in southern Afghanistans Helmand province and an extensive manhunt had been launched.

British actress Anna Massey dies at 73

LONDON: Actor Anna Massey whose roles ranged from lonely spinsters to Margaret Thatcher,has died of cancer. She was 73. Massey had roles in films including Michael Powells classic chiller Peeping Tom and Alfred Hitchcocks Frenzy.

Otto von Habsburg dies at 98

BERLIN: Otto von Habsburg,the oldest son of Austria-Hungarys last emperor who fought Nazism and Soviet communism during his long decades of exile from his homeland died Monday at age 98 in his villa in Poecking in Germany.

Chavez back in Venezuela

CARACAS: President Hugo Chavezs returned to Venezuela from Cuba after a cancer operation. The leader disembarked at Maiquetia airport near Caracas on Monday.