Its emperor Mansa Musa was placed on medieval European maps of Africa with description: "The king is the richest and most noble because his country abounds in gold." Under him, the empire reached its ...

Paintings, cartoons, brooches... Items from the former Prime Minister’s personal collection can fetch thousands ...

Santorini has been rocked by tremors for a fourth day, forcing school closures and extra flights to evacuate people. Aegean ...

The Israeli military blew up several buildings in the occupied West Bank in a series of simultaneous explosions that the Palestinian state news agency said had leveled around 20 buildings in the Jenin ...

PARIS (Reuters) - France rejected criticism from new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio that it lagged in defence, saying it met NATO's target to spend 2% of GDP on its military, was on course to ...

Thomas Treloar, aka the nicest man in Oz, swapped accountancy for his role as guest experience manager. He says he has ‘the best job in the world’, despite answering to the whim of the 200 plus guests ...

Harry Anderson of Bainbridge Island docked his 43-foot sailboat, Phywave, Jan. 29 in Fort Lauderdale, ending his sailing solo to all seven continents. The feat has been a decade in the making. And ...

Johannesburg OR Tambo International Airport (JNB) is Africa’s only airport with regularly scheduled nonstop passenger flights to all six inhabited continents. As sub-Saharan Africa’s busiest ...

He now however is stepping up the challenge, running 7 marathons, in 7 days, on 7 different continents. It is called the 777 marathon or World Marathon Challenge. Nawoj is hoping to compete with ...

Olympics-From Games on Five Continents to Digital Change, IOC Candidates Unveil Plans LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - The seven candidates for the world's most powerful job in global sport ...