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With Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule effectively over, Libya's new leaders and their foreign allies face the daunting task of restoring order, beginning reconstruction and avoiding collapse into conflict and chaos.

Japan's cabinet approved on Friday almost $50 billion of spending for post-earthquake rebuilding, a down payment on the country's biggest public works effort in six decades.

Haiti will need $11.5bn to rebuild after the devastating earthquake in January, its government and aid agencies say.

Cornerback DeAngelo Hall, a key to Dan Snyder and Washington's ambitious offseason rebuilding plan, agrees to a six-year contract.

The koala moved gingerly on scorched paws, crossing the blackened landscape as the fire patrol passed. Clearly in pain, the animal stopped when it saw firefighter David Tree following behind.