Rice to visit Libya in landmark trip

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. diplomat Condoleezza Rice will make a landmark trip to Libya this week, the first by a U.S. Secretary of State in more than half a century, the State Department announced on Tuesday. Her trip is a tangible sign of warming U.S.-Libya relations, which first began to thaw when Tripoli gave up its weapons of mass destruction program in 2003. "It is a historic stop," said State... [read full story]