Hague says Gaddafi must go

... reports the BBC. The world titters in embarrassment and moves on muttering, They think they matter?

Entirely unembarrassed is the French Foreign Minister:

Embattled French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has announced her resignation after weeks of criticism over her contacts with the former Tunisian regime.

But she said she had done no wrong, and launched a strong attack on the media.

As the elite do in France.

She had initially offered French help to quell the uprising in Tunisia, and then "at the end of December, as the pro-democracy uprising in Tunisia got under way, but before its significance was apparent, she visited the country on holiday, and, it emerged later, twice flew on a private jet belonging to businessman Aziz Miled.

"It also transpired that on the same trip, her parents signed a property deal with Mr Miled, a man with close links to the former Tunisian leader."

She's likely to be replaced by Defence Minister Alain Juppe. In 2004, he was convicted of mishandling public funds.