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The situation in Afghanistan is serious but improving 10 years after the invasion, Britain’s special representative to the country tells Channel 4 News.

Some of Libya’s most precious archives survived the violent overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. But can they now help Libya’s new leaders forge a national identity, asks expert Jason Pack.

There are fears of a humanitarian disaster as aid workers struggle to bring medical supplies to the Libyan city of Sirte, where fighting between pro-Gaddafi and NTC forces has intensified.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have been warmly welcomed by jubilant crowds in Benghazi on their first visit to Libya since the fall of Gaddafi.

The US says scores of Libyan army vehicles have crossed the desert into Niger, a claim denied by the country’s interior minister.

Libya’s rebel commanders may have to resort to an assault to take the Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid after forces loyal to the Colonel remained defiant.

As the head of the rebel military council in Libya announces he knows the whereabouts of Colonel Gaddafi, Jonathan Miller reports from the road to Bani Walid, a remaining loyalist stronghold.

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s wife and three children have fled to Algeria. In Libya, the rebel council says it is an “act of aggression” that Algeria let them in the country.

Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson burrows down into the tunnels beneath the Tripoli compound of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya – and finds “a world of total wackiness”.

Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson witnesses shocking scenes at a hospital in Abu Salim where doctors have fled – abandoning the injured and leaving the dead to decompose.

Hundreds of rebel fighters are dancing in celebration in Colonel Gaddafi’s heavily fortified Bab al-Aziziya compound after heavy gun battles during the day, as Lindsey Hilsum reports from Tripoli.

Lindsey Hilsum reports on the devastation visited upon the coastal town of Zawiyah as rebels press on to Tripoli.

Libyan rebels take control of an oil refinery in the town of Zawiyah just thirty miles west of the capital Tripoli, in a strategic and psychological blow to Colonel Gaddafi’s forces.

Six months after the war began Libyan rebels seem to be closing in on Tripoli. But would the fall of the capital lead, as one Libyan activist claims, to a “peaceful implosion” of the regime?