Huge explosions shook a military site in an eastern suburb of Libya's capital early Saturday as Western forces piled pressure on Colonel Moamer Gaddafi with a barrage of air strikes. The blasts, on the eighth day of a Western bombing campaign to halt attacks by Gaddafi's forces on civilians, left a radar facility in flames in Tajura, home to several military bases, a witness told AFP.

The crowds finally parted for Elizabeth Taylor as the screen legend was buried yesterday in a small private ceremony on a quiet hill outside Los Angeles. A superstar who had been mobbed for most of her life was sent on her way in a short service attended by no more than a few dozen family and close friends.