Military commanders in the Libyan city of Misrata said Saturday that no post-mortem would be carried out on the body of Moammar Gadhafi despite concerns over how the ousted strongman died.

"There will be no post-mortem today, nor any day," Misrata military council spokesman Fathi al-Bashaagha told AFP.

Tunisian voters on Saturday weighed their choices on the eve of the Arab Spring's historic first elections nine months after the surprise toppling of strongman Zine el Abidine Ben Ali that started it all.

Campaigning ended at midnight for the vote the previously banned Islamist al-Nahda party is tipped to win, with the ISIE independent polling commission reminding candidates and journalists that Saturday would be an "election silence day".

Faced with suspicions of an execution by a lynch mob, the order that "nobody here killed Gadhafi" has gone around to the fighters who captured alive the ex-strongman of Libya.

The fighters at a farm on the outskirts of the city of Misrata that serves as their al-Ghiran brigade base proudly exhibit the ousted leader's black boots, gold-plated gun and beige scarf.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemned the "killings and massacre" in key ally Syria, which has carried out a bloody crackdown on seven months of protests, in an interview with CNN.

"We condemn killings and massacre in Syria, whether it is security forces being killed or people and the opposition," Ahmadinejad said, according to excerpts of the interview reported in Farsi by the website of Iran's state broadcaster on Saturday.

An American diver is believed to be the latest victim of a fatal shark attack in western Australia, police said Saturday, just days after a man vanished while swimming in waters off the state capital Perth.

The 32-year-old was on an unaccompanied dive off Rottnest Island off Perth when witnesses waiting for him on their boat noticed something amiss.

Thailand's prime minister warned Saturday that the kingdom would endure at least one more month of flooding, telling anxious residents in the capital Bangkok to prepare for possible meter-deep water.

The authorities have launched a high-stakes attempt to channel the floodwaters from the central plains out to sea through canals in the city, which has already seen waist-high water in parts of its northern outskirts.

Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, whose death was announced on Saturday, was the oil kingpin's defense chief for nearly half a century but was also renowned for his extravagant living and largesse.

A half-brother of King Abdullah, he served as deputy prime minister, and defense and aviation minister from 1962, and was famed among Saudis for his regular, well-publicized acts of largesse, but also for reports that he had benefited massively from government arms purchases.

Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz has died, a palace announcement on state television said on Saturday, throwing his brother Prince Nayef into line to succeed King Abdullah as leader of the key oil producer.

The crown prince, aged around 86, who had served as the kingdom's defense chief for nearly five decades, had been in the United States since mid-June for medical treatment. He was operated on in July but no information had been released on his health since then.

NATO plans to end its seven-month air and sea mission in Libya on October 31, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday.

"Our operations are close to completion," Rasmussen said after lengthy talks with ambassadors from the 28-member alliance. There is "a preliminary agreement on the 31st of October."

The U.N. Security Council on Friday passed a resolution calling on Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh to immediately sign a deal under which he would quit.

The resolution, unanimously agreed by the 15 members, "strongly condemns" deadly government attacks on demonstrators and backs a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) peace plan under which Saleh would end his 33 years in power.