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As travel writer Scott McMurren hits 70, he looks back on his travels and what motivated him to hit the road and the air.

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The Behaim Globe depicted a narrowed Atlantic Ocean, which, if crossed, would lead directly to Cipango (Japan) and Asia. In ...

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French troops have been fighting insurgent groups linked to the Islamic state and al Qaeda across West Africa since 2014. Despite their military presence, French troops failed to quell the ...

Women's cricket in Africa is strongest in the south of the continent, and there are pockets of growth and progress in the east. But now, for the first time, the west will have a presence at a ...

With performance and participation, cricket in Nigeria hopes to shape people, their mindsets and value systems ...