He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

More than three million years after her death, the early human ancestor known as Lucy is still divulging her secrets. In 2016, an autopsy indicated that the female Australopithecus afarensis, whose ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

Full squad lists, as they are announced, for the 2025 Champions Trophy. Rwanda says South Africa is in “no position to take on the role of a peacemaker or mediator” in DR Congo. Duduzile Zuma ...

Night - Cloudy with a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds from E to ENE. The overnight low will be 69 °F (20.6 °C). Cloudy with a high of 82 °F (27.8 °C) and a 55% chance of precipitation ...

And with Russia still on the march, the war is far from over. This page is updated with the latest maps and charts showing military and humanitarian aspects of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Israel and Hamas have agreed a ceasefire to halt the 15-month war in Gaza and free the remaining hostages. The multiphase agreement was announced by Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin ...

The events of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, which took place in early September 1857, and came to their horrific conclusion on the 11 September, have been called “the darkest deed of the 19th ...

Maps grew up alongside his two younger sisters in Pretoria, South Africa. He completed his primary school education at the Sunnyside Primary School and later joined Lyttleton Manor High School. After ...

At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific ...

Yet, for 600 million people in Africa, this right remains out of reach. They lack access to the essential opportunities electricity provides: modern healthcare, quality education, greater quality of ...