Liverpool moved back top of the Premier League with a 2-0 win at Cardiff, but Manchester United and Arsenal did little for their chances of Champions League qualification for next season in shock defeats to Everton and Crystal Palace respectively on Sunday. United were thrashed 4-0 at...

An Algerian court has summoned former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia and current Finance Minister Mohamed Loukal, two close associates of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in a probe into the wasting of public money, state TV said on Saturday. They are being investigated over...

Algeria's Abdelaziz Bouteflika may be gone, but his unfinished Great Mosque of Algiers looms large as a symbol of his 20-year reign and, many say, his megalomania. Built with the nation's vast oil wealth, the monument on the Bay of Algiers will be the world's third biggest mosque and...

Syria adopted new measures Sunday to curb fuel shortages Bashar Assad's regime has blamed on strangling Western sanctions on the war-torn country. Syrian authorities are seeking to "regulate the distribution at petrol stations" and to ensure even deliveries across to country while...