The report says that Libya should impose a moratorium on the death penalty and guarantee the protection of migrants, many of whom attempt to make their way across the Mediterranean to Europe.

BBC: MEPs call for better treatment of refugees by Libya

Forty years later, Chrysler Corporation had its own brush with death and was saved only by Lee Iacocca who persuaded the federal government to guarantee the company's loans.

ECONOMIST: Motor industry

John O'Shea of Irish charity Goal told the Guardian newspaper he could not allow aid workers to move into Haiti from the Dominican Republican because he had "no guarantee that the people driving them are not going to be macheted to death on the way down".

BBC: What is delaying Haiti's aid?