Gold is one of the resources at the heart of these tensions. West Africa has been a renowned gold mining hub for centuries, dating back to the ancient Ghana empire, which earned its reputation as the ...

England will also see light patches in the north, but snow will also surprisingly reach as far south as Wiltshire.

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Most of them - predictably - are in the USA, which has a habit of pinching our English town names. America - which famously ...

The City of Boston is al­so holding many celebrations and events for Black History Month throughout the month of February. In ...

Dancing turtles have proved for the first time that some animals use Earth's magnetic field to create a personal map of their ...

Finding long-term solutions for the future of cocoa formed the hot concluding topic of key presentations for the final session of Chocoa's Amsterdam Sustainable Cocoa Conference, writes Neill Barston.

The UK is bracing for 70mph winds and 12 hours of rain tomorrow, as travel disruption is expected and some areas may experience flooding as well as loss of power.

As vast swaths of Congolese territory are seized by a Rwandan-backed armed group, Congo’s president looks to make a minerals ...

Western Cape police are investigating the recovery of a local fishing vessel skipper’s body near Mossel Bay, raising questions about the circumstances of his death.

The worst culprits, used by airlines including Ryanair and Wizz Air, have been named by SCSChauffeurs and presented here in a series of maps to lessen the shock for flyers when they land.