By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

Authorities report that at least 41 young men have died from circumcision procedures during traditional initiation activities ...

Godknows. Teenage. Divine. Marvelous. Prosper. Prince. Washington. What is the story behind the unique names of Zimbabwe’s ...

Renowned Kenyan writer, the late Ngugi wa Thiong’o, in his influential essay collection Decolonising the Mind, observes that “language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of ...

Humans were isolated in southern Africa for about 100,000 years, which caused them to "fall outside the range of genetic variation" seen in modern-day people, a new genetic study reveals. The finding ...

The military sent troops, helicopters and boats to rescue stranded people. At least 33 people have been killed and more than two million displaced over the past week. By Francesca Regalado Thailand’s ...

The United States has carried out at least 21 strikes on boats the Trump administration accuses of smuggling drugs, killing at least 83 people. By Anushka Patil The U.S. military on Saturday killed ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday evening a new operation dubbed “Southern Spear” to quash “narco-terrorists” in the Western Hemisphere. Hegseth said the mission is being led by ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A powerful tornado in Brazil’s southern state of Parana killed six people and injured more than 400 others Friday night, state officials said Saturday. The tornado, which hit ...

Research fellow, Department of Geography, Archaeology & Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand; Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University ...

Why SO MANY People Live In The Southern California Megalopolis Southern California has been known as a place of opportunity since it originally became one of the most populated areas in the country.

Two powerful offshore earthquakes struck the same region in the southern Philippines hours apart on Friday with the first 7.4 magnitude temblor killing at least seven people, setting off landslides ...