Depending on the map projection used, the size of continents can be quite distorted - and a map showing the true size of each ...

Can I name all 197 Flags of the World? Episode 7 of my "Can I name all 197 Flags of the World?" series! We have now learned ...

Although it’s believed several popes in the first millennia might have been born in North Africa, or at least had an ancestral tie to the continent, there hasn’t been one from that part of the world ...

When Yin and Gaz decided to travel across the world with one another, no-one batted an eyelid, after all, they were husband and wife. The only major difference was that now, the pair were actually ...

Data: Indian Meteorological Department The Southwest Indian monsoon typically sweeps over the Indian continent between late May and June, with rain lasting till about September. This brings about 80% ...

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JOHN HIGGINS’ participation at this year’s World Championship is in doubt after his wife’s dad had a heart attack. The four-time world champion, 49, accepted an invitation to the inaugural ...

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The day of fighting, itself the outcome of a gathering revolutionary crisis, presaged the outcome of the war: the victory of the revolution over what was then the world’s greatest power ...

I traveled to every continent in a year ... but there are two I'd skip on my next trip around the world. I loved visiting Australia. I kicked off my year of travel with a visit to Australia.