Clashes have been taking place at four separate borders or crossing points - at Erez in Gaza, near Ramallah in the West Bank, on the Golan Heights and at the border with Lebanon.

Syria denounced Israeli actions in the Golan Heights and Lebanon as "criminal", Agence France-Presse news agency reported.

On the Israel-Gaza frontier, at the Erez border crossing, Israeli troops opened fire with tanks and machine guns, injuring dozens, Palestinian medical officials said.

Hundreds of rebels were celebrating in the streets after pro-Gaddafi forces fled, leaving behind tanks that were set on fire, witnesses said.

Government forces have sown anti-shipping mines off the harbour, used Russian-made Grad rockets to scatter anti-vehicle mines in the port, and set fuel storage tanks ablaze with missile strikes, according to rebels and human rights groups.

Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) said the bill, to be introduced next week, will create a "universal obligation for all online companies" to not track people who set a browser flag or cookie saying they don't want to be tracked.

"This bill will offer a simple, straightforward way for people to stop companies from tracking their every move on the internet."

In a "compound" near an area deep inside Pakistan called Abottabad - not far from the capital of Islamabad - U.S. operatives engaged in a "firefight" with bin Laden's handlers, Obama said, and killed the terrorist leader.

The Afghanistan war will surely continue. Drone strikes in Pakistan will surely continue. Al-Qaida will surely proclaim imminently that it's merely transitioning into its next phase. But Obama called it the "most significant achievement to date in our effort to defeat al-Qaida."

WikiLeaks on Sunday began publishing from a collection of 779 classified reports on current and former prisoners of America's military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Obama administration protested the partial publication of the documents by several news organizations Sunday.

"These documents contain classified information about current and former GTMO detainees, and we strongly condemn the leaking of this sensitive information," read an official statement published in The New York Times.

Security forces in Syria have shot dead at least 12 people at funerals for anti-government protesters killed on Friday, reports say.

The BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones in Beirut says it appears that the government has made a deliberate decision to use live ammunition, to clear the streets and to impose order.

"One of the fallen people wasn't dead, he was injured and when someone tried to help, one security guard shot the injured person twice, to make sure he's dead."

From the end of last year, the time-travel themed drama is becoming more and more popular.

"The time-travel drama is becoming a hot theme for TV and films. But its content and the exaggerated performance style are questionable. Many stories are totally made-up and are made to strain for an effect of novelty. The producers and writers are treating the serious history in a frivolous way, which should by no means be encouraged anymore."

Heavy fighting is taking place in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, for a third day as rival forces battle for power.

Residents of Abidjan say they are too afraid to leave their homes as the fighting continues. Many report running out of food, with all shops closed and widespread looting.

Aid agencies have warned repeatedly that civilians were being subjected to major violence.

West Africa's second biggest economy has been brought to its knees by the conflict, which has sent global cocoa prices spiralling upwards.

In Tall, witnesses quoted by the Reuters news agency said about 1,000 people had rallied to show their support for the Deraa protesters, and were chanting slogans denouncing members of the ruling Assad family.

Presidential spokeswoman Bouthaina Shaaban blamed outside agitators for whipping up trouble, and denied that the government had ordered security forces to open fire on protesters.

Earlier, the Gaddafi regime announced it had stopped fighting with the rebels, and promised to follow the UN security council resolution.

Col Gaddafi has ruled Libya for more than 40 years. An uprising against him began last month after long-time leaders of neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt were toppled.