The year where all changed in Libya
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FOR Libya, 2004 was the year where everything changed, politically with its return to international grace, and economically with the start of reforms cutting away at state-controlled management.
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Libya granted its first oil exploration licenses in over four decades, awarding 15 permits to foreign companies, with US companies taking the lion's share.
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Everything has changed, starting with that most basic of concepts: nationality. Sixty years ago, the town of Sagan was located deep in Germany.
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Comparing the state of security in 1994 versus 2004, has anything really changed over the course of ten years?
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Moammar Gadhafi attempts to boost Libya's oil and gas output by bringing back a group of majors.
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BEFRIENDING LIBYA: Despite unresolved terrorism and human rights concerns, the United States took another step toward ending decades of hostility with Libya on Thursday.
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Africa's economy will grow faster this year, but changes are still needed for it to catch up with the rest of the world.
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By JO ELLEN DEUTSCH  WASHINGTON -- On Sept. 11, we face the fifth anniversary of that fateful day in 2001 when the world changed dramatically for all of us.
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TRIPOLI, Libya  - Libya signed a deal Friday to  pay $35 million in compensation to more than 160 victims of a  Berlin nightclub bombing in 1986, taking another major step  toward ending its international isolation.
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The winds of change are upon us.
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Standing on the threshold of the 20th century, the world seemed so young and carefree. In the warm summer air, the songs of birds could be heard and at times drowned out by the whir of the lawn mower. The clip clop of horses' hooves could be heard along the unpaved streets where children played their games. In the cool evenings, the lamplighter made his rounds. Shadows danced off buildings and sidewalks. There were those who enjoyed swinging lazily in the hammock or lazily gliding their canoe on some moonlit lake. Everything seemed settled and comfortable in familiar patterns, but there were changes in the wind. In a little more than 15 years, there would be almost three quarters of a million Model T Fords on the roads in North America.
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The complex legal action is one of the final kinks left in LibyaÂs once-tangled relations with the West.
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How an isolated African region became a barometer of tastes and trends in other parts of the world.
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PARIS, Aug 27 (IPS) - When the government of Libyan leader Muammar  Gaddafi freed five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor  after eight years in prison last month, it marked not only the  latest twist in Gaddafi's idiosyncratic rule, but was seen  as the opening salvo of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's  new diplomatic modus operandi in Africa and beyond.
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With the election of its first president with Islamist roots, the country enters a new era. Just what that era will bring is the question
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Foreign tourists stroll in Suk El Muscir Market on the second day of the holy month of Ramadhan, Oct. 16, in Tripoli, Libya. Libya is hosting a summit on Sunday about the Darfur crisis in western Sudan.
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"The relationship between Britain and Libya has been completely transformed in these last few years"  BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair today hailed "completely transformed" relations with oil-rich Libya after hour-long talks in the coastal town of Sirte with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. via News.com.au