Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in New ...

Giraffes are among the world's most recognizable animals. With their elongated necks and long legs, their gracious movements ...

The scene is the result of the invasion of Goma on January 27th by M23, an armed group under the control of Rwanda, Congo’s neighbour, which abuts the city. Paul Kagame, Rwanda’s president, has ...

The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror ...

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The Baptism of the Lord Jesus teaches us something about the theology of geography. There are many ... in the valley east of Jerusalem, just north of the Dead Sea and not far from the ancient ...

'Me, in Johannesburg? Wow': Matriculant thanks readers for helping her fulfil UJ ...

In the same way that The Beatles opened up the world to music in India, Led Zeppelin did the same thing with music in North Africa. When Jimmy Page and Robert Plant travelled, they took in the culture ...