If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

Google Maps began the process of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America after a recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump made the name change official. It is now ...

An estimated 4 million solar panels will reach their end-of-life in 2025 ...

A group of prominent Afrikaners has denounced US President Donald Trump’s claims of "white genocide" in South Africa and reached out to members of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign ...

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...

Please note that these are ZIPPED UP becaue of Git's 100MB file limit! If you make changes, zip it up again and add the zip, not the voting district folder. School data includes all the schools in ...

South Africa’s Democratic Alliance said former leader Helen Zille will be its candidate for mayor of Johannesburg as the party seeks to take control of the country’s biggest city in next year’s ...

Walmart Inc. wants another shot at cracking the Africa market. This time, it’s staking its name on it. About 15 years after the world’s largest retailer got a foothold on the continent with the ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's top court ruled on Thursday that an apartheid-era law banning husbands from taking their wife's family name or hyphenating both spouses' surnames was unconstitutional.

The appointment of Bénédicte Savoy underscores France’s changing views on the issue of returning artifacts that were wrongly taken during the colonial period. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Paris ...