1) The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu.

2) Founded by Tuareg herders, Timbuktu still counts the livestock trade among its primary sources of income.

3) At its height that empire stretched from Timbuktu to Bamako , and even as far as to the Atlantic.

4) Banjul, Ivanovo, Naples and Timbuktu are also on the list.

5) Bordering the Sahara in Mali,(http:///timbuktu.html) Timbuktu was once an economic andcultural hub of the trans-Saharan trade routes.

6) Kathmandu and Timbuktu, both cities most people have heard of but know nothing about.

7) Timbuktu is a great place to send a postcard from but its fame lies more in its inaccessibility than in anything there is to do there.

8) The old saying "from here to Timbuktu" might not mean what it used to, but I am glad that I have been there.

9) The right mentor "can be in Timbuktu or New York but you have to understand who that individual is and what they bring to the relationship."

10) Unlike North and West Africa, home of such great "library cities" as Tunis, Fez, and Timbuktu, Mauritania never had large sedentary population centers.

11) You can get Lodi news even if you're in Timbuktu.

12) Twenty years ago, it was very hard to visualize what was happening in Timbuktu.

13) Because of its remoteness and inaccessibility, Patagonia has always been, like Timbuktu or Shangri-la, a place of myths and legends.

14) In the shade of their tent, members of a Tuareg family doze through midday heat near Timbuktu in drought-stricken Mali.

15) Photograph by Brent Stirton – After a day of grazing in the surrounding desert, a herd of sheep and goats follow their owner to his home on the edge of Timbuktu.

16) Last year, 26 people died during a stampede while celebrating the same holiday at a mosque in the city of Timbuktu.

17) After a day of grazing in the surrounding desert, a herd of sheep and goats follow their owner to his home on the edge of Timbuktu.

18) While I'm pretty sure the phone was just lost and not stolen, I wanted to make sure no one would start calling Timbuktu on it or using insane amounts of data.

19) At least 15 people were killed and 41 injured in a stampede at a major mosque in Mali's northwestern town of Timbuktu on Thursday night, Reuters reported Friday.

20) A previous survey, carried out in April, revealed that 54 per cent of Britons thought Timbuktu was an imaginary place, and almost one in ten believed Kazakhstan did not exist.