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Page last updated at 16:12 GMT, Friday, 12 June 2009 17:12 UK

Italian businesswomen boo Gaddafi

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Muammar Gaddafi received a frosty response when addressing 700 Italian businesswomen in Rome.

The Libyan leader said he believed European women were emancipated not by free choice but because they had been "forced by necessity", provoking angry boos from the audience.

He held a similar meeting on a visit to Paris in 2007 with 1,000 selected women guests, who were told he wanted to "save European women".

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