BBC News with Sue Montgomery

The Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati says he's been persuaded to stay in office for the national interest, despite offering his resignation after the car bomb that killed the country's head of intelligence on Friday. Wyre Davies in Beirut has more.

Almost immediately after yesterday's bombing in Beirut that has caused for the resignation of Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati over his government

inability

to respond in any meaningful way to the attack, that's because a number of key ministers in the coalition government ally to Syria, the very country that's been widely blamed for the outrage. On the streets there have been violent anti-Syria demonstrations particularly in the northern city of Tripoli where at least one person was killed overnight. All eyes are now casting towards the funeral of general al-Hassan's which will take place tomorrow in central Beirut.

There are conflicting reports from Libya about the possible arrest of one of the most

wanted

man in the country, Colonel Gaddafi's former spokesman Moussa Ibrahim. Rana Jawad reports.

Several official sources have said to the BBC that Moussa Ibrahim, the ex-spokesman of the Gaddafi regime during the war has been captured. But other senior military sources in the country could not confirm the news and say they doubt the reports. According to the Prime Minister's office, Mr. Ibrahim was quoted he tried to flee the city of Bani Walid, it's a former stronghold of the late Colonel and has been