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This big cat’s a total boozehound. A leopard crashed a couple’s picnic in South Africa — and made off with a bottle of their wine, wild photos show. “It was definitely a heart-stopper,” said wildlife photographer Alan Hillen, who snapped...

African music has exploded onto the world stage in recent years, but its streaming platforms lag behind.

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has announced that a new variant of the COVID-19 virus is driving the country’s current resurgence of the disease, which is seeing higher numbers of confirmed cases, hospitalizations and deaths. The new variant, known...

A 13-foot-long Nile crocodile made mincemeat out of a much smaller cousin in South Africa, wild new images show. Shutterbug Jan Butter of Amsterdam witnessed the snack attack inside Kruger National Park, capturing the moment the hangry reptile turned...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — At night, Amanda Zitho worries her little boy is shivering and cold in his coffin and yearns to take him a blanket. She knows Wandi’s dead and gone and it’s senseless, but that doesn’t stop the ache. Wandi was 5 when...

In Peru, you can’t drive your car on Christmas. In Lebanon, you can go to a nightclub, but you can’t dance. In South Africa, roadblocks instead of beach parties will mark this year’s festive season. How many people can you share a Christmas...

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Who’s king of the jungle now? A pair of wildlife researchers fought off a starving lion who attacked one of them in Africa — by punching the predator in the face and hurling elephant poop at it, according to wild reports. Gotz Neef, 32, was...

BIHAC, Bosnia — More than a thousand migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were left to sleep in the cold after their camp in northwestern Bosnia burned down amid a dispute among Bosnian politicians over where to house them. On...

The new coronavirus strain blamed for the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the UK has escaped to the rest of the world. Cases of the more-contagious mutation of the virus that sent much of the UK into a near lockdown before Christmas have been...

The new COVID-19 variant detected in South Africa poses an even greater risk than the highly infectious strain that turned up in UK patients, the British health secretary said on Monday.  Secretary Matt Hancock called the South African variant a...

A Guinean beauty pageant winner and model says a line of Swiss skin care products ruined her career by leaving break-out scars all over her face, new court papers allege. Mariama Diallo — who won Miss Guinea, Miss West Africa and was a contestant...

This loot is worth its weight in gold. Police in South Africa are investigating a possible international gold smuggling ring after seizing 162 pounds of gold bars worth about $4.1 million at a Johannesburg airport. The South African Police Services...

NEW YORK – Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appeared to work against a key mutation in the highly transmissible new variants of the coronavirus discovered in the UK and South Africa, according to a laboratory study conducted by the US...

JOHANNESBURG — Being tall is the giraffe’s competitive advantage, giving it the pick of leaves from the tallest trees, so scientists were stunned to find two giraffe dwarves on different sides of Africa.  “It’s fascinating what our...

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JOHANNESBURG — South Africa is struggling to cope with a spike in COVID-19 cases that has already overwhelmed some hospitals, as people returning from widespread holiday travel along the coast spread the country’s more infectious coronavirus...