A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: ...

Knysna is the crowning jewel of South Africa's famous Garden Route, the coastal stretch known for its beaches, indigenous forests and charming towns. Knysna is situated on a vast lagoon and won fame ...

Tap, tap, tap. My secret Valentine will not be dissuaded and keeps tapping on the bay window. Earlier this morning, at ...

The Lynchburg Community Market hosts a Valentine's Day chocolate-making event for couples and singles on February 14 while ...

The Vatican's charity voiced outrage Monday at what it called the "reckless" and "unhuman" U.S. plans to gut USAID ...

It is not a real surprise that the smallest birds in the world belong to the family Trochilidae, commonly known as hummingbirds. However, even within the hummingbird family, there are large ...

The fossil suggests that modern birds evolved before the dinosaur-killing asteroid, perhaps in Antarctica Margherita Bassi ...

In South Africa, the interest rates decisions are taken by the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The official interest rate is the repo rate. This is the rate at ...

One of Jo'burg's most popular family attractions, the Montecasino Bird Gardens – which sits about 19 miles northwest of downtown – houses an array of brightly colored birds, reptiles and ...

A northern cardinal was struggling to hang on to a bird feeder outside a home in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, January 28, as a cold front brought gusty winds to the region. Ken Grille owns the ...

The first report on last month’s Jeju Air crash in South Korea confirmed traces of bird strikes in the plane’s engines, though officials haven’t determined the cause of the accident that ...