Timbuktu: from city of myth to rebel stronghold

* Tuareg insurgents now hold fabled Saharan trading town * Al Qaeda kidnapping had already frightened off tourists * "Mystic city" bewitched explorers, poets for centuries * Hidden treasures in wisdom, learning

Cyprus not yet out of the Dark Age

 * Power outage revives memories of 2011 disaster * A power failure shut down the main surviving electricity plant in Cyprus early on Wednesday morning, causing a chain of events that led