NEW DELHI, India, April 9, 2011 (AFP) - A 73-year-old Indian social activist who staged a 98-hour hunger strike in protest against corruption ended his fast today after the government agreed to his demands over a new anti-graft bill.

NEAR AJDABIYA, Libya, April 9, (AFP) - Heavy loyalist fire pushed Libyan rebels back almost to the town of Ajdabiya today, after the insurgents had pressed westward halfway to the oil refinery town of Brega, 80 kilometres (50 miles) away.