People around the world are happiest in the morning, according to a U.S. study on Thursday that analyzed hundreds of millions of messages on the microblogging site Twitter.

Cornell University sociologists used language software to detect the presence of positive words in 509 million tweets from 2.4 million users in 84 different countries over a two-year period.

Moammar Gadhafi's spokesman Moussa Ibrahim was captured on Thursday outside of the former Libyan strongman's hometown of Sirte, field commanders from the new regime told Agence France Presse.

"Misrata fighters contacted us and gave us the information that Moussa Ibrahim has been captured," said Mustafa bin Dardef, of the National Transitional Council's Zintan Brigade.

Tony Bennett made music history Wednesday when he topped the Billboard album chart for the first time in his 60-year career -- and became the oldest living act ever to do so.

Bennett, 85, a 15-time Grammy winner who plays London and Copenhagen next week, reached the summit with "Duets II" featuring collaborations with 17 other stars including Lady Gaga, Michael Buble and the late Amy Winehouse.

South Africans will glimpse into the lives of Nelson Mandela's family when a reality show featuring three of his grandchildren premiers in 2012, the producers said Thursday.

"The show provides a first look into a high-profile South African family," the producers said in a statement.

An anonymous donor has left a wad of cash worth $131,000 in a public toilet in Japan, with instructions it be used to help victims of the March earthquake and tsunami, an official said Thursday.

A plastic shopping bag, containing 10 million yen, was found on September 22 in a toilet for disabled people in the city hall of Sakado, a commuter town north of Tokyo, a city official told Agence France Presse.

Pop stars including Lady Gaga and Bruce Springsteen will come out in New York to help rocker Sting celebrate his 60th birthday in a charity concert.

Sting invited the stellar guest list -- also including Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige, Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am and Billy Joel -- to his bash at the Beacon Theater on October 1. Proceeds will go to the Robin Hood Foundation, an anti-poverty charity, sting.com website said.

Anti-regime activists inside Syria oppose the Syrian National Council, an opposition body formed in Turkey last month, because it favors foreign intervention, prominent activist Michel Kilo said on Thursday.

"The opposition within the national council are in favor of foreign intervention to resolve the crisis in Syria, while those at home are not," Kilo claimed in remarks to Agence France Presse at his home in Damascus.

Real Madrid's French international Karim Benzema skipped training with the rest of his teammates on Thursday due to injury and is in doubt for the club's league match away against Espanyol.

The 23-year-old was forced to leave the pitch during Real's 3-0 Champions League win over Ajax on Tuesday after 75 minutes of play because of an adductor muscle problem in his left thigh.

Flushed with the triumph of her latest film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Lebanese director Nadine Labaki is the toast of the town as she sits in a Beirut cafe giving interview after interview.

The movie "Where Do We Go Now?", about a group of women determined to prevent the men in their village from getting involved in a religious war, won best picture at the festival's People's Choice Award, seen as a bellwether for Oscar success.

The family of Arch West, the marketing executive who came up with Doritos, will sprinkle his urn with the spicy tortilla chips when his ashes are laid to rest on Saturday in Texas.

"It's true, they are going to toss some Doritos in with him," funeral director Maria Estes of the Restland Funeral Home and Cemetery in Dallas, told AFP by telephone on Tuesday. "We're going to allow it."