A look at the Sahara desert in Algeria from the International Space Station.

On Wednesday, this week, for instance, Aljazeera television showed or broadcast a documentary about howAfricans are being sold in the Sahara Desert, and the untimely deaths of most of these people, who are mostly migrants, wanting to reach Europe, via Italy.

All went very well for me, and I'm very happy to go home with a win," said Al Balooshi after two days of gruelling racing through the soft and golden sands of the Sahara Desert.

Our research is the first to analyze trends in the size of the Sahara Desert over a century-long time scale.

The Sahara Desert covers most of Northern Africa and it has gone through shifts in temperature and moisture over the past few hundred thousand years.

Summary: The Sahara Desert is probably the last place where we seek to grow plants and vegetables.

I don't want to be rude, but I gave two fingers to the camels" - Explorer Ranulph Fiennes, 71, on completing the gruelling Sahara Desert race.

A LEPTON woman will battle blistering sun and icy cold nights after embarking on a Sahara Desert trek to help the plight of sick and dying African children.

In six days, they had to complete six marathons in the rough terrain and inhospitable climate of the Sahara Desert.

That's why she's heading off to the sweltering heat of the Sahara Desert to run six back to back marathons while also carrying all of her own equipment.

In the Sahara desert there is an ample supply of solar energy, but the problem is getting this to where it is needed.

But it's a feature found in the no-man's-land Tnr region of the Sahara Desert that really raises eyebrows.