Before petroleum was discovered in the late 1950s, the country was considered one of the poorest nations in the world.

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African deserts. A recent study reveals how this ancestor of humanity thrived in arid environments, long before Homo sapiens.

Twenty-two are African languages, among them Ga (745,000 speakers in Ghana), Tshivenda (1.3 million in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique), and Wolof (8 million in Senegal).

Libya's security authorities have recovered nearly 50 bodies from two mass graves in the country's southeastern desert, ...

"We were able to reconstruct, within two or three degrees, what a field biologist observed in the middle of the Australian and African deserts more than 50 years ago," Professor Kearney said.