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A European tour group kidnapped in the Sahara Desert was abruptly freed after a phone call to one of the captors, and all 19 hostages piled into a single car, some clinging to the roof as they drove 200 miles to safety.
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AP, Algiers
Algerian officials say 13 people have drowned in a Sahara desert town in flash floods caused by torrential rains.
made popular Oct 2 2008
AP, Cairo
Egyptian and Sudanese troops, backed by European commandos, rescued a tour group that was kidnapped in Egypt and taken on a 10-day dash across the Sahara to the...
made popular Sep 29 2008
AP, Cairo
Egyptian and Sudanese troops rescued an abducted 19-member European tour group in an assault on the kidnappers in the remote Sahara borderland, officials said. The...
made popular Sep 29 2008
AP, Cairo
A group of 11 European tourists and four Egyptians were kidnapped during an adventure safari to one of the remotest sites in Egypt deep in the Sahara desert and were...
made popular Sep 22 2008
There are quite a few projects across the world that are trying to turn the desert in to farming space both because the remaining planet is struggling to find new land...
made popular Sep 5 2008
The two tribes lived there in a plum lakeside community when the Sahara Desert, as we know it, was a lush, green country, but were separated by effects of climate...
made popular Aug 30 2008
A Stone Age graveyard on the shores of an ancient, dried-up lake in the Sahara is brimming with the skeletons of people, fish and crocodiles who thrived when the...
made popular Aug 17 2008
AP, Washington
A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert.
made popular Aug 14 2008
AP, Washington
A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert.
made popular Aug 14 2008
I normally do not crib, whine and start complaining about stuff too much because I believe that 90% of those who use the internet already do that and hence there is...
made popular Jul 23 2008
Six thousand years ago, the massive arid region dominating northern Africa was quite green, a patchwork of trees and savannas as well as many sparkling lakes.
made popular May 11 2008
AP, United Nations
The latest round of U.N.-led peace talks between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front ended in stalemate Wednesday, with the two sides agreeing to try again...
made popular Jan 10 2008
AP, United Nations
A U.N. negotiator is brokering talks starting Monday between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front, hoping for “quick progress” in the 32-year...
made popular Jan 7 2008
Discoveries that are more new have been made from the Jurassic world of giants. A postgraduate student of Bristol University discovered fossilized remains of new...
made popular Dec 13 2007
AP, London
Sahara the Arctic seal keeps turning up in warmer waters. The young seal was rescued off the coast of North Africa last year, far from his native habitat in the Arctic....
made popular Nov 15 2007
Sahara has launched three new tablet PC’s i440D, i440T, and the i417T in its TabletKiosk line.
The PC are almost same in the specs like they all have a...
made popular Jan 9 2007
To Penelope Cruz, ’sexy’ is a boring term. She said, she would rather like her acting talents to be considered rather than her looks.
She seems to be tired...
made popular Dec 30 2006
Nokia has redesigned the Nokia 8800 with the breathtaking sirocco winds and rocks of the Sahara and renamed it Nokia 8800 Sirocco edition. Well friends, the rocks in...
made popular Aug 27 2006
Penelope Cruz and Matthew McConaughey were seeing each other since last year after they met on the sets of ‘Sahara’. The couple is now finding it hard to...
made popular Jun 3 2006
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AP, Berlin
Five Germans and five Italians who were part of a 19-member tourist group kidnapped in Egypt and taken by their abductors on a dash through the Sahara Desert returned...
made popular Sep 30 2008
As exotic as the name is, Agadez is the remotest place to be on the earth or as often called the beginning of the end of the world. Situated in Republic of Niger in...
made popular Sep 9 2008
The two tribes lived there in a plum lakeside community when the Sahara Desert, as we know it, was a lush, green country, but were separated by effects of climate...
made popular Aug 30 2008
AP, Tripoli
Hijackers in Sudan’s wartorn Darfur region seized a jetliner carrying nearly 100 people, including local Darfur officials, and forced it to land at a World War...
made popular Aug 26 2008
AP, Khartoum
A man waving a knife hijacked a jetliner carrying about 100 people Tuesday in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region, forcing it to land at a World War II-era airfield in...
made popular Aug 26 2008
AP, Washington
A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert.
made popular Aug 14 2008
AP, Washington
A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert.
made popular Aug 14 2008
Speaking at the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona (ESOF), the European Commission’s Institute for Energy Arnulf Jaeger-Waldau expressed a belief that the creation...
made popular Jul 26 2008
Here is yet another discovery of a dinosaur. It may no longer surprise or appeal us, but only the scientists. But, recently a new dinosaur finding breaks all the rules...
made popular Nov 16 2007
Bodele valley's unique features, not Sahara desert, provide Brazilian rainforest's fertilizing dust!
Brazilian rainforest need to be fertilized by dust, more than half of which is supplied by a valley in northern Chad — Bodele Valley. The scientists are amazed by...
made popular Dec 29 2006
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