South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...

AmaWaterways launches its 2025/26 brochure detailing their itineraries in Europe, Asia, Egypt, Africa, and Columbia for the ...

The M23 rebels, who said that they captured the city on Monday after a weekslong advance, are one of about 100 armed groups ...

MeerKAT’s newest giant radio galaxy find is extraordinary: the plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light years.

The violence in eastern Congo has escalated. Near Goma in North Kivu, 13 peacekeepers have been killed by M23 rebels, while Congo has broken off relations with Rwanda. The North Kivu region is rich in ...

You may not know it, but right now there's a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief party goers are known as supermassive black holes. These mysterious objects can have ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

This study addresses a novel and interesting question about how the rise of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau influenced patterns of bird migration, employing a multi-faceted approach that combines species ...

More than 160,000 people are under evacuation orders and warnings. The maps below show the sizes and statuses of the fires. They will be updated frequently. The largest of the blazes, the ...

Illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year, according to the mining minister. Typically, undocumented miners move into mines abandoned by commercial miners and seek to extract ...