Few animals look as calm and harmless as a hippo lounging in the water, but appearances can be deceiving. Dangerously so, in the case of the hippo. Despite their bulky bodies and seemingly lazy nature ...

No day is the same at the zoo, with various activities and events taking place. Students from Myerscough College are ...

Discover 36 incredible monkey facts, from record-breaking howls to tail tricks and clever tool use. Fun, fascinating, and ...

PETER Cookson-Dean has worked at Walton Hall Children’s Zoo for 43 years – a fact even he finds surprising. The ranger said: “It’s pretty scary to be honest, how many years I’ve actually been here.” ...

The Amazigh new year, known as Yennayer, begins between 12 and 14 January - depending on the area in which they live in ...

This week’s library column topic I found several weeks ago while researching for a previous column. And so, this week I’m ...

About 200 miles from Johannesburg, the Drakensberg region offers a breathtaking landscape of stark ridges and green valleys.

North Africa holds a distinctive place in the history of both the Mediterranean and African worlds. Commonly known as the ...

Museveni came to power with the sense that violence is critical to politics, and especially critical to liberation politics.

Thousands of people fled their homes in northwestern Nigeria this week after the leader of one of the armed gangs in the ...

For the first time in modern memory, no foreign names remainA Quiet revolution at AFCON 2025: African minds take the helm of ...

As early as 4,500 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, for instance, gender-diverse people held important roles in society with ...