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Today, as fighters try to oust Gaddafi loyalists in Sit,

our correspondent in Libya ponders the dilemma of keeping the story in the news.

In Pakistan, the monsoon season has affected millions the We're up close and personal in a wrestling match on the grasslands of eastern Mongolia

and in New England we discover why lobster fishing is helping boost the crustaceans

numbers. The conflict in Libya has become a war of attrition. Soldiers loyal to

Colonel Gaddafi is still holding out defending pockets of the country such as

the coastal town of Sirt. The former rebel troops now fighting under the

flag of the National Transitional Council claim they're gaining ground but

they're meeting fierce resistance and progress is slow. Correspondence such as Alice de Leith head

face the problem of keeping the long-running story in the headlines.

It was too late to buy lamb, so camel pasta it had to be and it wasn't bad. I guess the little

villa on the med would count as luxury in normal times, but Libyans are still

waiting to find out what normal is going to be.

It's luxury for us, hot water, electricity, even some air conditioning.

Luxury in an oil workers compound, an oasis and nightly retreat from the front lines closing in on cert

where Colonel Gaddafi was born and where what's left of his army is still holding out.

We are commuting to war. For an hour and a half every morning and

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