(Colombo, Lankapuvath) - The body of Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden has been buried at sea after he was killed by US covert forces in Pakistan, US media reported Monday.

Six Libyan villagers are recovering in hospital after being shot by American soldiers coming in to rescue the U.S. pilots whose plane crash-landed in a field.

The helicopter strafed the ground as it landed in a field outside Benghazi beside the downed U.S. Air Force F-15E Eagle which ran into trouble during bombing raid last night.

(Colombo Lankapuvath) Supporters of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi attacked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in Cairo on Monday, the Agence France Presse news agency reported.

Ban was attacked by protesters angry about the UN's military intervention in Libya as he left a meeting of the Arab League on Cairo's Tahrir Square.

The UN leader was forced to return to the Arab League building and was reported to have left by car from another exit.

Tahrir Square was the focus of a popular uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak last month.

The attack comes just three days after the UN adopted a resolution to impose a no-fly zone and "all necessary measures" against Gaddafi's forces.

Countries including the United States, Britain and France launched on Monday a second wave of air strikes on the positions of Gaddafi's forces in a bid to protect civilians caught up in a month-long civil war in Libya.

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A missile strike has destroyed a building in Libya'scapital, Tripoli, which Western officials say was one of Col Muammar Gaddafi's command centres.

(Colombo Lankapuvath) Libya has been rocked by a second night of allied air strikes as a cruise missile destroyed a building in Muammar Gaddafi's compound.

(Colombo Lankapuvath) Explosions and anti-aircraft fire thundered in the skies above Tripoli early Sunday, but it was not clear whether they resulted from another round of cruise missile attacks by allies determined to stop Moammar Gadhafi's offensive against Libyan opposition forces, CNN reported a short while ago.

(Colombo Lankapuvath) Pakistan yesterday (10) officially asked India for a progress report on investigations into the Samjhauta Express blasts, in which 42 Pakistanis were among those killed. The report was sought in the wake of news reports in the Indian media about jailed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader, Swami Aseemanand, admitting to his role in the 2007 blasts.

(Colombo Lankapuvath) Israeli forces carried out air strikes yesterday (06) evening in Gaza, but there were no reports of casualties, Israeli officials and a Hamas official concurred today (07).