The case of the 39 Stormberg baboons – whose fate rests on permits lapsing, jurisdictional buck‑passing and the suggestion that ‘killing is the cost‑effective route’ – is a clarion call for reform, ...

Baboons in trouble - again. The inadequacy of animal protection laws when it comes to wild animals who create a nuisance to farmers ...

The facts are mind-blowing – 9000 species in just 90,000 square-kilometres, making it even more rich and varied than the ...

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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Two buses and two other vehicles crashed early Wednesday on a highway in western Uganda, killing at least 46 people, police said, in one of the worst motor accidents in the East ...

Many parishioners are too scared to leave home to attend Mass, buy food or seek medical care as the Trump administration’s ...

As researchers discover overlooked tattoos on mummies from around the world, it's prompting new insights about some of the ...

On Oct. 26, 1825, the Erie Canal, the United States' first man-made waterway, was opened, linking the Great Lakes and Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River.

On October 26, 1881, four lawmen, including Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, exchanged gunfire with five outlaws, killing three of them, in the “Shootout at the O.K. Corral” in Tombstone, Arizona. In 1774 ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — The world’s oldest president, Cameroon ‘s 92-year-old Paul Biya, has won election again, the country ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq is weeks away from parliamentary elections that will set the country’s course during one of the Middle East’s most delicate moments in years.

Forest ranger Daouda Bamba is in no doubt about who the apex predator is in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, ravaged by war ...