Yet Timbuktu's isolation has become a bit less ... thumb through it and stare in amazement at an illustration of the Great Mosque of Medina. It's the only drawing, besides geometrical patterns ...

At this point I fell into the excuses that I regularly used with the men and boys hawking silver jewelry near the mosque ... event spurred the great dispersal of the Timbuktu libraries.

(CNN)-- Twenty-six people, at least half of them children, were killed in a stampede near a mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, according to a journalist who witnessed the incident. Moulaye Sayah ...