Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

The continent is also a country - but there are often misconceptions about the region it's a part of and how it's defined.

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

They come in all sizes, can thrive in a wide range of environmental conditions, and make themselves at home on every major ...

Many on the continent have also embraced the Republican narrative of a strong US economy during the first Trump presidency.

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond ... fashion model Phelix Owiny attends World Vitiligo Day celebrations held by the Royal Patches Foundation ...

It took roughly six hours for The Associated Press to call the U.S. presidential election after the final polls closed on ...

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Early Friday morning in Amsterdam, in the shadow of the house in which Anne Frank hid and where her family was betrayed, ...

A portion of the world's iciest, coldest continent is "greening" at a dramatic rate because of global warming, scientists announced in a recent study. In fact, the research showed that vegetation ...