With eastern-European countries increasingly suffering from the gas-payments row between the Ukraine and Russia, Dutch economists are accusing Ukraine of turning their annual row over their unpaid gas bill into an unsavoury political crisis.

Muntadhar al-Zeidi is not only jailed for throwing his shoes to George Bush but he also lost his famous shoes as the Judge handling his case ordered that the shoes be destroyed.

What are the US special forces -- the Green Berets -- doing in the Sahara desert? Since the end of World War Two, US soldiers have never set foot in Algeria, so why now?

Flash floods in the Algerain town of Ghardia killed 31 people, approximately five thousand people have turned out to demand urgent aid.

Car bombs kill 11 and wounds 31 others in the Algerian town just a day after another attack killed 43 and wounded 45 in a neighbouring Algerian town.