For many years, friends and family of John Best, well-known police officer, former chairman of the Eastern Cape Emergency Coordinating Committee and now city councillor in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro ...

Dwindling river flows and worsening drought are triggered by warmer-than-average weather and lower precipitation levels.

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The Civil War began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.

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When you glance at a map of West Africa, one border stands out as unusually narrow and oddly shaped — The Gambia. It’s often ...

N obody is quite sure how the ferry sank. Ayuen Samuel, who manages the old shipyard in Juba, South Sudan’s capital, thinks ...

Spring birds, ancient ruins and scenic wetlands are discovered during a journey through France’s Camargue delta.

How collaboratives can accelerate government initiatives to eliminate preventable global health problems, as seen in the case ...

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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

A warm blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate ...