Bee Gees lead singer Robin Gibb said Friday he was making a "spectacular" recovery from colon cancer and felt better than ever.

"The prognosis is that it's almost gone and I feel fantastic and really from now on it's just what they could describe as a 'mopping-up' operation," the 62-year-old told BBC radio.

Robin's twin brother Maurice died in 2003 from complications resulting from a twisted intestine, and younger brother Andy died in 1988 following a battle against cocaine addiction.

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The Iranian government has arrested relatives of Persian-language journalists working abroad for the BBC in a bid to silence them, the British Broadcasting Corporation said Friday.

BBC Director General Mark Thompson said the sister of a BBC Persian journalist was arrested last week and held in solitary confinement on unspecified charges at Evin Prison in Tehran, before being released on bail.

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US stocks rallied sharply Friday after a strong jobs report for January that showed the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly three years.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 154.63 points (1.22 percent) to 12,860.04 in closing trade.

The broad-based S&P 500 rose 19.25 (1.45 percent) to 1,344.79, while the Nasdaq Composite added 45.98 (1.61 percent) to 2,905.66.

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Russia on Friday launched an Internet site which will transit live images from polling stations during the March 4 presidential election in which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is seeking back his Kremlin job.

Internet users can register on the webvybory2012.ru site until March 3, Deputy Minister for Telecommunications and Mass Media Ilya Massukh told a news conference.

Web cameras have been installed in 91,400 voting stations across the country at a cost of 25 billion roubles (629 million euros/$824 million).

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One of Libya's many new militias has been accused of detaining and apparently torturing to death a former ambassador to France, the latest allegation of brutality to mar the victorious revolutionaries' reputation since the fall of Col Muammar Gaddafi. www.telegraph.co.uk | 2/3/12 8:09 PM

Going to the Caribbean solo to compare the swinging singles style of Club Med with the more refined Gansevoort.

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