A MAGNITUDE 4.9 earthquake has hit Edinburgh – but it wasn’t the Scottish capital rocked by the event. Edinburgh of the Seven ...

Every year, Africa ... THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE OF 1755 The French philosopher Voltaire wrote a famous poem about the 7.7 quake and accompanying tsunami which devastated the south of the Iberian ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

South Africa’s Democratic Alliance declared a dispute within the nation’s coalition government, days after President Cyril ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A magnitude 5.3 earthquake rattled south Taiwan just before 7:20 p.m. on Friday. The Central Weather Administration reported the earthquake struck 40 kilometers east-northeast ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck a mountainous, rural area of Taiwan’s south on Tuesday near the city of Chiayi, the island’s weather administration said, with reports of minor damage.

estimated that the energy released by the earthquake was equivalent to two atomic bombs. The quake jolted the neighbouring cities of Tainan and Kaohsiung in the south, with tremors felt as far ...

Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short Meanwhile, residents further south in WA’s Wheatbelt were rocked by an earthquake. About 11.15am on Sunday morning in Meckering, about 130km east of Perth ...

African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in World War I and have no known grave, in Cape Town ...