Libya has slowly been clawing its way back from pariah status to something like respectability and acceptance in the international community.

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Libya celebrated the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought Col. Moammar Gadhafi to power with a parade, lavish dance spectacles and fighter jets streaking overhead on Tuesday amid new controversies, including the return of the man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people -- mainly Americans.

TRIPOLI, Libya - Hijackers in Sudan's wartorn Darfur region seized a jetliner carrying nearly 100 people, including local Darfur officials, and forced it to land at a World War II-era airfield in the heart of the Sahara Desert in neighboring Libya, officials said.

To neutralize the chickenhawks in Congress who are pushing for ill-advised military actions in Libya without any knowledge of the military realities of those actions, President Obama should take a lesson from President Eisenhower in 1954. Eisenhower was undeniably the foremost military man in the world, and he was being pushed by the chickenhawks to send U.S. troops to Vietnam to relieve the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu, where the French occupiers were being booted out after 94 years of colonial rule.

TRIPOLI, Libya - The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround after decades of terrorist killings, American retaliation, suspicions and insults with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's peacemaking visit Friday with Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's mercurial strongman.

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Monday it is restoring normal diplomatic relations with Libya for the first time in over a quarter century after removing Moammar Gadhafi's regime from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.

You don’t have to be too terribly old to have believed this day would never come. The United States announced that it would be resuming full diplomatic relations with Libya after 26 years and almost simultaneously announced agreement on a trade deal with Vietnam, clearing the way for the nation to join the World Trade Organization.

WASHINGTON - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has admitted trying to develop weapons of mass destruction but now plans to dismantle all such programs, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday.

TRIPOLI, Libya -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair met today with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and said after the historic talks that the former pariah state could become an important partner in the war on terror.

The 18th-century English wit Samuel Johnson was once heard to observe that nothing so concentrates a man's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in a fortnight. Watching another get led up onto the gallows must surely elicit a like response — particularly for one who's quite as guilty as the condemned.

Across the state and country, motorists continue to pay more for fuel than they have in 28 months, according to a press release from AAA Arizona. Thursday's statewide average price was $3.256 per gallon, an increase of seven cents from last week. Nationwide, prices increased more than eight cents to $3.228 per gallon.

It’s hard to figure out Mitt Romney.

"Those that believe that substitute teacher Tony Hill's letter to Russell Pearce was truthful probably also believe that if they forward an email, that Bill Gates will pay for little Jennifer's badly-needed kidney transplant. Oh, wait! Russell Pearce believed it!"

“I watched (Thursday) on Fox News the bomber from Pan Am Flight 103 get on an airplane from Scotland and fly back to Libya and receive a hero’s welcome. He spent eight years of his 27 years-to-life sentence. … We should cut off any aid to Scotland and Libya today.”

Across the state and country, motorists continue to pay more for fuel than they have in 28 months, according to a press release from AAA Arizona. Thursday's statewide average price was $3.256 per gallon, an increase of seven cents from last week. Nationwide, prices increased more than eight cents to $3.228 per gallon.

Across the state and country, motorists continue to pay more for fuel than they have in 28 months, according to a press release from AAA Arizona. Thursday's statewide average price was $3.256 per gallon, an increase of seven cents from last week. Nationwide, prices increased more than eight cents to $3.228 per gallon.