South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror ...

The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" Big Boy would be classified as a separate species The nocturnal black arachnids are usually spotted within around 150 km of Sydney ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A girl holds a portrait of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in a market in Lagos, Nigeria, March 31, 1978, the ...

They founded ski jumping clubs and built scaffolding into Minnesota’s natural hills and bluffs. St. Paul’s club calls itself the nation’s oldest and dates back to 1885.

NEGAUNEE, MI -- The longest consecutively running ski jumping tournament in the United States is set to return to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The 138th annual Ishpeming Ski Club Ski Jumping ...

Flipping through a family album, Keachia Bowers paused on a photo of her as a baby on her father’s lap as he held the 1978 album “Africa Stand Alone” by the Jamaican reggae band Culture.

As 2025 dawns, African nations are looking out onto an uncertain global political landscape. Russia's grinding war in Ukraine still has no end in sight, the United States is about to swear in an ...

Ivory Coast is the sixth in a growing list of African nations cutting military ties with former colonial power France. France's President Emmanuel Macron greets Ivory Coast's President Alassane ...

Patient recounts her 10-hour ordeal after brutal and shocking arrest in hospital.

Africa’s linguistic landscape is a treasure trove of culture and heritage and African languages are as diverse and colourful as the continent itself. They carry history, culture, and identity ...

Most of us remember two things from high school biology: that mitochondria are the powerhouses of cells and that we inherit stable sets of chromosomes from our two parents. Both truisms are only ...