Many of Algeria's key towns and cities lie along the northern coastal region, where places such as Annaba and Constantine have long histories dating back to Roman times and before. There are also ancient urban centres located at oases in the interior of the country, such as Timimoun and Ghardaia in the M'zab Valley. For the most adventurous, the desert south offers unique landscapes and environments, such as the Hoggar Mountains and Tassili N'Ajjer.
Author Jenny Diski, diagnosed with inoperable cancer, dies aged 68. The author Jenny Diski, who had been writing a serialised diary about her inoperable cancer since being diagnosed in 2014, has died. The news was announced on Twitter by Diskiâs partner, Ian Patterson, whom she referred to in her writing as âthe Poetâ.
George Orwell Â© Orwell was a British journalist and author, who wrote two of the most famous novels of the 20th century 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in eastern India, the son of a British colonial civil servant.