Her unusual mix of love songs, folk pieces and odes in praise of the fight for independence attracted attention

Shares in the industrial services group Cape crashed 37 per cent yesterday after it said that a massive energy project it is working on in Algeria will make a loss.

Travelling gracelessly with A A Gill

Algerians reportedly abstained in large numbers from the country’s parliamentary elections today – despite the poll being billed as the fairest in 20 years.

Philippe Falardeau, 95mins. Starring: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nelisse

When we come to tally up the profit and loss account for the Olympics, there's going to be a lot in the debit column: bloated costs, Lord Coe's corporate toadying and the runaway creation of eyesores (I have to rinse with Optrex if I even catch a glimpse of bloody Wenlock and Mandeville).

The Islamist gunman who killed seven people before being shot dead by police was buried in Toulouse yesterday after the city's mayor dropped a refusal to permit the ceremony.

The gunman, Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people in three separate attacks in southern France, has been buried in a town near Toulouse, the BBC reported tonight.

Violent Islamists have started to use increasingly bold tactics in the north

Seven Algerians fighting deportation from the UK on grounds of national security won Supreme Court appeals today.

A suicide attack at a military academy west of the Algerian capital has killed at least 10 people, security officials said last night.

Due to the uncertain political situation in their Malian home base of Tessalit, Tinariwen did what comes naturally to nomads, upping sticks and relocating to a tent in the Algerian desert to record Tassili.

Stop me when you've guessed what I'm describing. "The hooked nose, the thick lips, the swarthy complexion, the curly black hair, and piercing dark eyes..." Got it yet? I'll go on. "Every traditional feature of the Jewish face was there in most marked and pronounced character."

Two people were killed in Algeria today when a suicide bomber targeted a police headquarters in a town 45 miles east of the capital, a local security source told Reuters.