Black smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 11:50 a.m. local time, signaling that the latest vote was inconclusive. It was the second ballot of the conclave’s first full day and the ...

Protesters gathered in Cape Town and Johannesburg on Wednesday morning to mark Namibia’s first Genocide Remembrance Day. The ...

The strange and disturbing phenomenon of exhibiting humans in zoos was once considered a European thing, but a boomerang ...

From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

The trade is legal in Germany, even when the skulls date from the German colonial era. Thousands of human skulls were shipped to Germany during the colonial era, in a bid to support so-called ...

Afrikaners are descendants of mainly Dutch, French and German colonial settlers who first came to South Africa in the 17th century. They were the leaders of the country's previous apartheid system ...

Afrikaners are descendants of mainly Dutch, French and German colonial settlers who first came to South Africa in the 17th century. Afrikaner refugees from South Africa arrive at Dulles ...

Afrikaners are descendants of mainly Dutch, French and German colonial settlers who first came to South Africa in the 17th century. Afrikaner refugees from South Africa arrive at Dulles International ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to meet at the White House next week following allegations by Trump — and denied ...

A contentious Captain Cook memorial that has been the target of repeated vandalism is set to be scrapped. The City of Yarra on Tuesday voted unanimously to remove the statue, which stands at the ...

The suspected perpetrator is said to have stabbed the woman on Wednesday evening at the New Yorker clothing shop ... the officers and was arrested," the German newspaper's website said.

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