Medea, Algeria News

A COLLISION between two buses in Algeria today has killed 11 people and wounded another 65, the APS news reports.

A COLLISION between two buses in Algeria yesterday killed 11 people and wounded another 65, the APS news reports.

Sixteen armed militants have been slain in Algerian regions considered strongholds of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, media reports indicate.

Poor Medea. Always vilified and accused, now the poor woman has been subject to two brutal theatrical assaults in as many weeks.

"I WANT the truth," President Nicolas Sarkozy said yesterday, promising to release classified documents about the kidnapping and beheading of seven Trappist monks in Algeria 13 years ago.

A French general who worked at his country's embassy in Algiers in the 1990s has told a French investigating judge that he was told seven French monks were mistakenly killed by the Algerian army _ not by Islamist insurgents as long believed.

London, Medea/Medea Your rating Click on a star to rate Fiona Mountford's rating Reader rating Add your review Description: An adaptation of Euripides's drama, with live performance interacting with pre-recorded visual imagery.

Tighe says: 'I'm interested in what a myth means today. Our myths are nationalism, religion, war, consumerism, so I'm using Medea to tell a contemporary story.' enlarge He's a busy man, Dylan Tighe.