About 80,000 residents have been ordered to flee and more than 1 million people were urged to evacuate Nagoya, a city in central Japan, Tuesday as a typhoon was expected to hit the area.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday congratulated Libya's transitional leadership on the apparent success of that country's revolution, ushering in a post-Gadhafi era for the North African nation as part of the international body.

Sabha has long been considered a staunch pro-Gadhafi stronghold, but many of its residents greeted fighters from the new government warmly as they rolled into the city Tuesday. PRESSURE MOUNTS ON REGIME HOLDOUTS |