Nevertheless, over the course of the previous year, the pair had fashioned themselves into two of the least likely soldiers ...

Biologist Mike Ross, balanced in a canoe beneath a star-filled sky in central Zambia, slaps the water with a net attached to ...

Three cattle on the left, 20 elephants on the right,” shouts the expedition leader from the bow seat of the first of five ...

Talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group are ‘moving in the right ...

It is fascinating that some of the most splendid prose in the Hebrew Bible emerges from the mouth of Balaam, a brilliant poet ...

UNESCO World Heritage Sites are some of the most treasured places on Earth. From ancient cities to natural wonders, they tell the story of our shared human history. But today, many of these sites face ...

In the latest chapter of ambitious national blueprints, Ghana is being sold the 24-Hour Economy. The vision, as always, is breathtaking: a bustling Volta Lake transformed into a superhighway for ...

IN RECENT weeks the eyes of the world have been fixed on Israel’s illegal and unprovoked attack on Iran. But during this time little notice has been taken over the humanitarian disaster taking place ...

Israel, in confronting these threats at their source, is not merely defending itself. It is shielding the broader world from the spread of jihadist ideology and theocracy. Its pre-emptive strikes, ...

Mass spectrometry unlocks the hidden story of three corroded coins, revealing Ibo’s surprising role in early Indian Ocean ...

M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control which is vital to the production of the world's mobile phones - and over its ...

The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and recently beatified by the Vatican were ...