Libya urged to examine Muammar Gaddafi's death

The UN called for a full investigation, after video footage showed Col Gaddafi captured alive - and then dead. His burial has been delayed with officials divided about what to do with the body. A post-mortem is expected. NATO says it will end its campaign in Libya by 31 October.

The alliance's Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said that as the mission winds down, Nato "will make sure there are no attacks against civilians during the transition period". NATO's seven-month campaign of air strikes was carried out under a UN mandate authorising the use of force to protect civilians in Libya. For the people here the manner of the colonel's death matters little. What counts is that he's gone, and crucially, that Libyans believe he won't be coming back.

That perhaps in part explains the delay to the funerals. But as details emerge about his final moments questions are being raised to which at the moment there are no clear answers. Col Gaddafi was captured alive. People we've spoken to say he was relatively unharmed. But then he was set upon by an angry mob. In mobile phone footage fighters could be heard arguing over whether or not to kill him. Several hours later he was pronounced dead from a bullet wound to the head.

No-one knows who fired the shot. Hundreds of Libyans have been queuing to get a glimpse of the body of Col Gaddafi in a meat storage room in Misrata. The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in the city says some - mostly women - craned their necks to see the body of his son Mutassim, who was also killed on Thursday. Officials, including acting Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, have also been to see the corpses. Oil Minister Ali Tarhouni told Reuters Col Gaddafi would not be released for immediate burial.

Capitalism and its critics rage against the machine

From Seattle to Sydney, protesters have taken to the streets. Whether they are inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York or by the indignados in Madrid, they burn with dissatisfaction about the state of the economy, about the unfair way that the poor are paying for the sins of rich bankers, and in some cases about capitalism itself. In the past it was easy for Western politicians and economic liberals to dismiss such outpourings of fury as a misguided fringe. In Seattle, for instance, the last big protests (against the World Trade Organisation, in 1999) looked mindless.

If they had a goal, it was selfish-an attempt to impoverish the emerging world through protectionism. This time too, some things are familiar: the odd bit of violence, a lot of incoherent ranting and plenty of inconsistency. The protesters have different aims in different countries. Higher taxes for the rich and a loathing of financiers is the closest thing to a common denominator, though in America polls show that popular rage against government eclipses that against Wall Street. Yet even if the protests are small and muddled, it is dangerous to dismiss the broader rage that exists across the West. There are legitimate deep-seated grievances.

Young people-and not just those on the streets-are likely to face higher taxes, less generous benefits and longer working lives than their parents. More immediately, houses are expensive, credit hard to get and jobs scarce-not just in old manufacturing industries but in the ritzier services that attract increasingly debt-laden graduates.

Europeans seek bold debt deal, despite differences

European leaders were struggling on Friday to craft a bolder solution to the region's financial crisis, despite clear signals from French and German officials that they have sharp differences heading into an important weekend summit meeting in Brussels. As ever, the focus is on Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, who have made a habit of cobbling together deals to present to their European Union colleagues.

But forging an agreement now is harder than before, as Paris and Berlin face core differences over how to maximise the euro zone's financial rescue fund and how far the European Central Bank should intervene in the bond markets, either on its own or through the bailout fund. Already the two leaders have announced that Sunday's summit meeting, which had already been delayed to allow more time for negotiations, would be followed by another summit meeting as early as Wednesday.

That announcement, paradoxically, seemed to buoy stock and bond markets, apparently because the Europeans at least appeared to be focusing intensely on resolving the crisis. But the delay may have been because Mr. Sarkozy needs pressure from other nations to bring Mrs. Merkel around to a more flexible position on how to use the bailout fund, called the European Financial Stability Facility, and the central bank. Mr. Sarkozy has now rushed twice to Germany for talks with Mrs. Merkel, the last time on Wednesday, as his wife was giving birth, to press for a deal.

The meeting was testy, said German officials, who have complained that France is "not budging an inch." Mr. Sarkozy, clearly the supplicant in the relationship, speaks openly of a "European rendezvous with history," while Mrs. Merkel keeps repeating that "there is no magic wand" and that a long-term solution will take time.