TAMPA – Busch Gardens is in the midst of transforming a land based on a real-life desert into a lush, fictional oasis. The theme park’s change from Timbuktu to Pantopia, scheduled to be ...

I nearly killed a man to reach Timbuktu, but only after he made me dig our truck out of the sand with a stolen butter knife. Not that getting home was much easier. Once we finally made it to the ...

Timbuktu! No city in the world conjures such images of romance and adventure. NBC News' Richard Engel journeys to the lost city of gold — the end of the earth, terra incognita — where old maps ...

But this year things were different. Timbuktu has been under blockade by the al-Qaeda affiliated group Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) since late August.