GADDAFI HAS BEEN KILLED, SAYS LIBYAN AMBASSADOR TO UK

GADDAFI HAS BEEN KILLED, SAYS LIBYAN AMBASSADOR TO UK

The Libyan ambassador to the UK has told Sky news that Colonel Gaddafi is dead. Mahmud Nacua, the Charge d’affaires at the Libyan embassy in London confirmed the news and this has been followed up by the NTC vice-chairman. Reports state that Gaddafi died of wounds sustained in capture near his hometown of Sirte on Thursday. Meanwhile, NATO confirmed that it hit a convoy of Gaddafi loyalists near the City. If the news is true, the next step will be how... 

Capitalism: With The Ups Comes The Downs

Capitalism: With The Ups Comes The Downs

Greek contagion is spreading across the Atlantic. Not in the form of widening yield spreads and plunging bank stocks but in the form of protests. On Saturday, a splinter group of Occupy Wall Street, Occupy LA gathered outside City hall. Their beef? Bank bailouts, bonuses and unemployment. They are "the 99%": those that will "no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%". Ana Kasparian, co-host of the Young Turks, an online news show... 

SMILE (WHILE YOU NICK THOSE TRAINERS). YOU’RE ON FLICKR!

SMILE (WHILE YOU NICK THOSE TRAINERS). YOU’RE ON FLICKR!

A photo-fit collage of alleged looters has been released on the photo-sharing website Flickr. Operation Withern run by the Metropolitan Police is using the website to ask for help identifying people in connection with looting and riots in Tottenham, Croydon, Hackney, Wandsworth and Haringey on 7 and 8 August, 2011.    Operation Withern is urging anyone who recognises people in the photographs or has any information about the violence and disorder that occurred to contact...