Fatima Ba compliments a customer trying on one of her designs -- a stylish silk dress in ochre with a gold motif made from ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the only ...

Historian Diana Darke argues in “Islamesque” that Europe’s monuments owe a vast debt to Muslim craftsmen and designers.

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 3 (Reuters) - South Africa's foreign ministry said on Monday that its expropriation act was not exceptional, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would cut off funding to ...

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Textile Research Institute (DOST-PTRI) are collaborating to produce battle dress uniforms (BDUs) using ...

nearly a thousand miles to the west, and take over the whole country. A map of Africa highlights two countries: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, along with two major Congolese cities ...

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has vowed “a vigorous and coordinated response” against a rebel alliance that has besieged swathes of the nation’s mineral-rich east ...

SW winds tending SE Min - 20. Max - 26. Friday, February 7: Mostly cloudy. Late shower or storm. N/E'ly winds Min - 18. Max - 28. The previous The Inner-West weather article can be viewed here.

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

Architect Susan Nwankpa Gillespie designed the exterior of the second floor of the ADU with kente cloth in mind. Part of the ...

Sharing details of help and support from organisations and individuals in your area who are working hard to make things easier for you. On 19 December 2013 the news team were recorded live as ...