blues and rock-flavored music wafting in from northwestern Africa like a Saharan dust cloud. Houston will get a taste of it Oct. 3 when Niger's Etran De L'Air plays White Oak Music Hall ...

Satellite images released by NASA show pockets of plant life popping up all over the Sahara Desert after an extratropical cyclone drenched a large swath of northwestern Africa on Sept. 7 and Sept.