M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control which is vital to the production of the world's mobile phones - and over its ...

Local drug market experts believe fentanyl, a potent opioid, is behind the mass overdose in the Penn North neighborhood of Baltimore that hospitalized at least 27 people over ...

Britain’s oldest Second World War veteran, Donald Rose, has died aged 110, believed to be the oldest man in the UK. The D-Day ...

Somaliland is offering the U.S. use of a strategic Horn of Africa port in exchange for recognition of its statehood. In ...

The map of Africa by treaty by Hertslet, Edward, Sir, 1824-1902; Brant, R. W. (Richard William), 1852-1934; Sherwood, H. L. (Harry Leslie), 1863-1946; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian ...

February and June polls found Americans generally have high confidence in the National Weather Service and their local weather report. That trust could now be undermined.

Martin Reid found the letters and photographs wedged within an antique desk just before the 80th anniversary of VE Day ...

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

The Veterans Business Resource Group from BP's Whiting Refinery turned out in big numbers for their seventh annual Veterans ...

By the time Chantal had reached central North Carolina on Sunday, July 6, it had already been downgraded to a tropical depression.

In the shadowy Mediterranean of late 1942, HMS Seraph sliced through Axis-dominated waters flying the Stars and Stripes, not the White Ensign. Onboard, an unusual scene unfolded: her British crew, ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...