A person reads a copy of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano with the front page about Pope Francis’ encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship,” in St. Peter’s Square at ...

A little-known element is shedding light on the transatlantic slave trade. Researchers have assembled a map of strontium, a naturally occurring element, across sub-Saharan Africa. These data can be ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays ...

An area of low pressure is looking better defined as it approaches the Cabo Verde Islands Sunday night. It will not take much for this to become a tropical depression before it interacts with the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump promised West African leaders a pivot from aid to trade during a White House meeting Wednesday as the region reels from the impact of sweeping U.S. aid cuts.