Tetouan, Morocco News

Chess players are relatively rare, but they can be seen. Those who play chess will sometimes do so in conditions that would bemuse a western player.

NEW YORK Jan Eliot, creator of the Universal Uclick syndicated strip "Stone Soup," will represent the United States at the second annual Festival International de la Bande Dessinee d'Alger cartoon exhibition in Algiers from Oct.

If you want to avoid great, interesting and eclectic live music this week, you'll have to try pretty hard.

Arriving in the little Moroccan town of Chaouen at dusk, you wonder if you've been transported across the Mediterranean.

CASABLANCA, Morocco - Morocco has long been viewed as a rare liberalizing, modernizing Islamic state, open to the West and a potential bridge to a calmer Middle East that can live in peace with Israel.

RABAT: Moroccans yesterday began four days of celebrations to mark the 10th anniversary of the accession to the throne of King Mohammed VI.

July 30 marks the tenth anniversary of the succession of His Majesty King Mohamed VI of Morocco and is celebrated with the public holiday, Throne Day.

Moroccan authorities said they have disbanded a five-member criminal ring involved in the international drug dealing, which included the brother of a top opposition Islamist movement figure, local press reported on Tuesday.

With more space, my Sunday column would have had 25 travel tips, or 100, of course.