The world’s seas stay below stress from a spread of human-caused threats. PHOTO/PEXELS. By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Within the early Seventies, a visit to the seashores of Naples, Italy was a roll of the cube. The town’s coastal waters have been so flush with sewage and industrial waste, that one summer season practically 20 per cent of Belgian…
Cunard’s iconic Queen Mary 2 will go to Durban and Cape City as a part of her 2026 World Voyage. The Queen Mary 2, the world’s solely energetic ocean liner, is ready to go to South African shores once more this April. As a part of her 110-night World Voyage, the flagship vessel will arrive…
Between 280 and 200 million years in the past, a bunch of animals advanced which might finally give rise to mammals, together with people: the therapsids. They have been first described greater than 150 years in the past, primarily based on fossils from South Africa. Since then, many extra fossils have been found. James Kitching,…
French now ranks forward of Arabic because the fourth most generally spoken language on this planet, based on a report revealed this week forward of Friday’s worldwide day of the French language. With 396 million audio system worldwide in 2025 in comparison with normal Arabic’s 335 million, French is available in behind English, Mandarin Chinese…
Because the solar rose over a Center East scarred by weeks of relentless battle, the decision to prayer resonated amidst the distant thunder of the entrance traces. But the area didn’t retreat into silence. As an alternative, it responded with a defiant, multi-colored symphony of custom. Because the opening salvos weeks in the past, a…
Based mostly on greater than 9 million knowledge factors monitoring worldwide flows of commerce, capital, info, and other people, the report provides probably the most complete view of globalisation out there. International connectedness stood at 25 per cent in 2025, matching the report excessive first reached in 2022 Namibia ranks among the many prime three…
Girls proceed to die from problems of being pregnant and childbirth, and that is unacceptable. Whereas Africa has made progress in lowering maternal mortality since 2000, the area nonetheless wants a twelve-fold improve within the annual discount charge to satisfy the Sustainable Improvement Aim, in response to the estimates from the United Nations Maternal Mortality…
An aerial view of the termite mounds in Namaqualand, South Africa, coated by spring flowers. The flowers develop preferentially on the mounds as a result of they’re richer in vitamins than the encircling soil.Credit score: Alastair Potts Lire en français The world’s oldest inhabited termite mounds, found in Namaqualand, South Africa, are offering perception into…
It’s additionally Africa’s largest, however critics view the mosque as a conceit undertaking for a former president who tried to call it after himself. Algeria has inaugurated the world’s third-largest and Africa’s largest mosque, which had been delayed for years amid political shifts, forward of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune…
The panorama alongside the Buffels River in South Africa’s Namaqualand area is dotted with hundreds of sandy mounds that occupy about 20% of the floor space. These heuweltjies, because the locals name them (the phrase means “little hills” in Afrikaans), are termite mounds, inhabited by an underground community of tunnels and nests of the southern…