The Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, has died, aged 94. In the course of his writing career, Mahfouz published some forty novels ... Read More

The Apartheid-era Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok has "knelt down and washed the feet of his former nemesis, the Rev Frank Chikane, in an attempt to prove the sincerity ... Read More

The Russian-born realist artist Vladimir Tretchikoff, who had lived and worked in South Africa since the end of the Second World War, has died, reports the SA Sunday Times. He ... Read More

New bank notes come into effect in Zimbabwe from today. The redenominated notes have had three zeros removed to make it easier to deal with hyperinflation. People will no longer ... Read More

Follow inveterate traveller Michael Palin across the Sahara in this gallery of nearly 100 photos taken during the making of his BBC documentary Sahara. Palin has been nominated as one ... Read More

Earlier this year the first new tomb (KV63) to be found in the Valley of the Kings since 1922 was excavated of a radar survey done of the valley. Now ... Read More

It's not the first time a project of this kind has been done -- handing out disposable cameras to children who've never held a camera before -- but once again, ... Read More

British Somaliland is invaded by Italian troops from their bases in Abyssinia. General Godwin-Austin and his small garrison of British troops was unable to stop the Duke d'Aosta's 25,000 soldiers ... Read More