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Updated at 11.54am BST 11.19am BST Assad warplanes attack rebel-held key town There has been intensive bombing by regime warplanes around Maarat al-Numan, the strategic town captured by rebels last week, AFP reports.

Thus did the first lady shake hands with one of the most formidable of the 166 female ATA pilots who, like their male colleagues, delivered warplanes around Britain, and beyond, between 1940 and 1945.

He revealed that the alliance recorded more than 400 incursions into foreign airspace by Russian warplanes last year, around four times as many as in 2013.

Israeli warplanes struck around 20 targets in Gaza today, raising the death toll in the territory to at least 414 in seven days of intensive bombing.

Most versions of events agreed that Gaddafi and his supporters attempted to flee the city in an 80-vehicle convoy in the early morning but were hit by Nato air strikes carried out by French warplanes at around 8.30am local time.

Russia's Defense Ministry responded with a denial that its warplanes flew around the Canadian vessel and the assertion that they had done nothing wrong.

As allied warplanes began flying around-the-clock missions over Baghdad in close support of Army and Marine ground forces who have made armed forays into the city since Saturday, pilots were given strict rules of engagement.

An array of sensors, from unmanned Predator drones to U-2 spy planes, enabled commanders to direct warplanes to targets around the clock with stunning speed and accuracy.

The Clinton administration said it was most concerned because the system would significantly increase the capabilities of the Chinese to track warplanes in and around the Taiwan Strait.

Warplanes bombed bases around the city used by units of the security forces allied to the rebels, as well as al-Anad air base in Lahj province, from which US military advisers were evacuated last week.

As Western warplanes again bombed sites around Tripoli and other Qaddafi strongholds, NATO agreed at a meeting in Brussels to take over the mission.