Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may lead them to the location of Noah’s Ark.

By 2050, one in four people on the planet will be African. Early tremors of this seismic change are already registering around the world. By Declan Walsh and Hannah Reyes Morales The Sani family ...

North Africa, and Italy across many centuries. Astrolabes were the “world’s first smartphone,” according to Cambridge University in a blog post announcing the discovery, a “portable ...

An incredible map shows the “true” size of Africa ... it accounts for about 18 percent of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest among all the continents; the ...

Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South ...

The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world. Legend has it that Christianity was brought from Jerusalem to Alexandria on the Egyptian coast by Mark, one of the ...

Flat maps, aimed at providing a coherent projection of the Earth, are showing countries to be inaccurate in sizing. Some countries are shown to be a lot bigger than they really are in and around ...

Here are the top 50, based on data. Here’s How Much Retirees Should Keep in an Emergency Fund Map reveals the world’s mysterious eternal flames Bill and Melinda Gates gave their kids a strict ...

Mansa Musa travelled to Mecca with a caravan of 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world ... Atlas map from 1375, a drawing of an African king ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Cameroon's 91-year-old president ... Biya has not been seen in public since attending a China-Africa forum in Beijing in early September.

Momentum behind the corridor connecting Africa’s so-called Copperbelt ... ports and mines across the developing world. That includes loans to refurbish the 100-year-old Benguela Railway in ...