VIDEO : World Looks To Isolate Libya's Gaddafi

Britain has revoked the diplomatic immunity of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi after the UN agreed to a range of sanctions against Libya amid the growing unrest.

Britain has revoked the diplomatic immunity of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi after the UN agreed to a range of sanctions against Libya amid the growing unrest.

Mr Hague's comments come as Royal Navy's HMS Cumberland made her way back to Benghazi to pick up any British citizens still stranded in the port city.

The Foreign Office estimates between 200 and 380 Britons are still inside Libya.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told Sky's Dermot Murnaghan: "Our information is that the vast, vast majority of people, of British people in Libya, either in the desert or elsewhere, who wanted to leave, have left.

"It was meticulously planned and extremely well executed, obviously in an environment of great uncertainty in Libya itself."

Dozens of oil workers rescued from the Libyan desert by two RAF Hercules are also expected to leave Malta for the UK later today.

Overnight, the UN resolution also called for the immediate referral of the crackdown against anti-government demonstrators in Libya to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

It wants an investigation and possible prosecution of anyone responsible for killing civilians.

The Security Council all agreed to freeze the assets of Colonel Gaddafi, his four sons and only daughter.

The council also voted to ban the family, plus 10 close associates, from international travel.

Libya's deputy UN ambassador, Ibrahim Dabbashi, one of the first Libyan diplomats to denounce Col Gaddafi and defect, said the council's move would provide "moral support for our people who are resisting".

It "will help put an end to this fascist regime which is still in existence in Tripoli", he added.

All 15 nations on the council ultimately approved referring the case to the permanent war crimes tribunal.

Council members did not consider imposing a no-fly zone over Libya, and no UN-sanctioned military action was planned. Nato has also ruled out any intervention in Libya.